math330
4th August 2011, 18:44
Is this story as huge as I think it is?
Not sure where to post this, mods pls feel free to move :)
From the BBC's main page -
Striking new images from the mountains of Mars may be the best evidence yet of flowing, liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.
The findings, reported today in the journal Science, come from a joint US-Swiss study.
A sequence of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many long, dark "tendrils" a few metres wide.
And, then...
"This could be the first flowing water," said Professor McEwen. This has profound implications in the search for extraterrestrial life.
"Liquid water is absolutely essential for life, and we've found life on Earth in pretty much every moist niche," said Dr Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist at University College London, who was not involved in the study.
link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928
:o
Not sure where to post this, mods pls feel free to move :)
From the BBC's main page -
Striking new images from the mountains of Mars may be the best evidence yet of flowing, liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.
The findings, reported today in the journal Science, come from a joint US-Swiss study.
A sequence of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many long, dark "tendrils" a few metres wide.
And, then...
"This could be the first flowing water," said Professor McEwen. This has profound implications in the search for extraterrestrial life.
"Liquid water is absolutely essential for life, and we've found life on Earth in pretty much every moist niche," said Dr Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist at University College London, who was not involved in the study.
link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928
:o