Mars rover Curiosity sees key water indicator

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NASA confirms Mars was once a habital planet ....vid on link....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21755976

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12 March 2013 Last updated at 17:19

Mars rover Curiosity sees key water indicator
By Jonathan Amos

Science correspondent, BBC News
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The US space agency (Nasa) has reported that its Curiosity rover has made another
significant discovery on Mars. The robot has drilled into a rock that contains clay
minerals - an indication of formation in, or substantial alteration by, neutral water.
Scientists say the find is one more step towards showing conditions on the Red Planet in
the distant past could have supported life.Many rocks studied previously were probably
deposited in acidic water. While this would not have precluded the possibility of micro-
organisms taking hold on Mars, it would have been more challenging, scientists believe.
Identifying clays shows there were at least some locations on the planet billions of years
ago where environments would have been much more favourable.

"We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that
probably if this water was around and you had been there, you would have been able to
drink it," said John Grotzinger, Curiosity's project scientist.The rover made the
assessment after studying a powdered sample drilled from a fine-grained mudstone at
its exploration site in Gale Crater, a deep impact bowl on Mars' equator.

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Curiosity pictured at its drill site in Yellowknife Bay. The sampled mudstone lies just
in front It found the rock sample to contain 20-30% smectite - a particular group of
clay minerals. This high abundance and the lack of salt are strongly suggestive of a
fresh-water environment. The presence of calcium sulphates, rather than
magnesium or iron sulphates seen in those previous rocks, adds to the evidence
that the sampled rock formed in a neutral to mildly alkaline pH environment.
Scientists think Curiosity probably drilled into an ancient lakebed.The analysis also
identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon - some of
the key chemical elements for life. Additionally, it found compounds in a range of
oxidised states, meaning there were electrons moving through the environment.
Those could have been co-opted as an energy source by simple life-forms, if they
were present.The rover is building quite a catalogue of evidence for ancient water
at Gale. Already, it has revealed the remains of an ancient riverbed system, where
water once flowed perhaps a metre deep and quite vigorously.The robot is currently
working a small depression known as Yellowknife Bay, about half a kilometre from
its touchdown site last August. Nasa's original mission plan was to head towards
the big mountain that dominates the centre of Gale Crater, but the fascinating
science at Yellowknife means this journey has been delayed. Researchers on the
project intend now to remain at the present location for several weeks before
beginning the long drive to Mount Sharp. Satellite images indicate clay minerals will
also be found at the base of the mountain.

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Curiosity's drill can cut down through about 5cm of rock

In recent days, operations have been slowed by a software glitch, requiring the
vehicle to be run off its reserve computer.There is also the imminent issue of solar
conjunction, which will see Mars move behind the Sun as viewed from Earth,
blocking communications.All this means that Curiosity will be at Yellowknife Bay for
a while yet.

"Basically, we can't talk to the rover and the rover [can't] talk to us for most of the
month of April," said Michael Meyer, the lead scientist on Nasa's Mars exploration
programme.

"We'll do some more science activities though the end of this month, [provided] the
engineers confirm it's safe for us to do those operations. But we will not do a
second drill hole until after solar conjunction."

When the rover does finally get to the mountain, known as Mount Sharp, the
expectation, based on satellite imagery, is that it will again find clay minerals.
This will enable the robot to compare and contrast past environments



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The US space agency's Opportunity rover, which continues to work nine years on
from its landing, is also believed to be sitting on top of clay-bearing rocks at its
exploration site far to the west of Gale. Opportunity, however, does not have
Curiosity's capability to assess those rocks.

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NASA Scientist say they found evidence of water that would have probably
been pure enough to drink...

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Published on 12 Mar 2013


NASA's rover Curiosity has discovered something that has scientists claiming
intelligence life could have already existed on the planet Mars. After months of
research and analysis of rock samples from the red planet, scientists were able to
identify key elements essential for life. RT's Liz Wahl has more.

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Seven and half mins in Richard Hoagland talks about Curiosity rover on Mars
and the fact NASA are ingnoring artificial debris on the surface...finished 39 mins in...

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Published on 3 Mar 2013


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The original HiRISE satellite image showing a close up of what appears to be a 'monolith' on Mars

http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicmarsanoms.htm

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Great information ty for sharing. Maybe we're close to the tipping point of them revealing what we already suspect.

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Richard doing a two hour interview on coast with John B Wells Dec 2012......
refered to in the later vid above......


Artificial 'Man Made' Structures on Mars

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Published on 22 Dec 2012


C2C science advisor Richard C. Hoagland discussed what he believes are artificial 'man-made' structures on Mars. According to Hoagland, the Martian landscape was once home to an advanced civilization that was destroyed 65 million years ago by a great planetary catastrophe. The Curiosity Rover is currently rolling over top this once great civilization and capturing photographic evidence of debris from that catastrophe, he proposed. Hoagland pointed to one photo in particular, a newly released NASA/JPL image that he called The Apartments. It looks like a motel from the fifties that one might have seen along Route 66, he said, noting that "this is architecture, these are ruins, this is an ancient civilization."


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Curiosity Investigates 'Apartments' on Mars?

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Curiosity's secret mission is to detail scientific evidence of this ancient and advanced civilization on Mars, Hoagland continued. He referenced his 90-minute video presentation (scroll to bottom of page) in which he analyzes numerous other structures on the Red Planet. The symmetry and geometric regularity of the construction of these things points to intelligence, he suggested, adding that "you don't have to know what it is to know it's not a rock." Hoagland is convinced the astonishing Curiosity images are part of a disclosure effort by some on the inside, including chief scientist John Grotzinger who recently announced an 'earth-shaking' find on Mars that was immediately downplayed by NASA.

Hoagland also talked about the hyperdimensional/torsion field physics that he learned about by decoding the Cydonia ruins. This ancient lost science is also embedded in the geometry of Mayan structures on our planet, he revealed. Hoagland hopes to confirm this by measuring tell-tale hyperdimensional energy signatures when he visits the Kulkulkan Pyramid at Chitzen Itza in mid-December. If democratized, the technology encoded in these structures could transform the world, providing the ultimate secrets to free energy and human longevity, he said.

Biography:

Richard C. Hoagland is a former space science museum curator; a former NASA consultant, and during the historic Apollo Missions to the Moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. For over 20 years, Hoagland has been leading an outside scientific team in a critically acclaimed independent analysis of possible intelligently-designed artifacts on Mars. Richard and his team's investigations have been quietly extended to include over 30 years of previously hidden data from NASA, Soviet, and Pentagon missions to the Moon.

Wikipedia
Richard Charles Hoagland,[1] (born 25 April 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey[2]) is an American author, and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics.

His writings claim that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that NASA and the United States government have conspired to keep these facts secret. He has advocated his ideas in two published books, videos, lectures, interviews, and press conferences. His views have never been published in peer-reviewed journals.Hoagland has been described by James Oberg of The Space Review and Phil Plait of Badastronomy.com as a conspiracy theorist and fringe pseudoscientist.

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Hoagland claims the "Face on Mars" is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of very large pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, with the ratios between measured angles roughly equaling mathematical constants such as pi (π), e, as well as the square root of 2 (√2), the square root of 3 (√3), and the number 3. He states that the ratio between the surface area of a sphere and the surface area of the tetrahedron inscribed within it, ≈2.720699, which is π × (√3)/2, is an approximation of e that he refers to as e'. Since e'/π = (√3)/2 = ≈0.866, he speculates that the primary meaning of the geometry of Cydonia is to emphasize the ratio of the sphere and circumscribed tetrahedron. To Hoagland, this is evidence that an advanced civilization might once have existed on Mars, and that NASA is suppressing the evidence for reasons explained in a 1960 Brookings Institution report entitled "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs."[note 4] In fact, although the report did state that it is a possibility that such information would destabilize society, it did not itself even consider the question of withholding information from the public. The report recommended that the question ought to be studied.

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This live video presentation is from around the sametime as the C2C interview
above and is what Richard Hoagland mentioned about looking at the pictures on
the presentation....


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Published on 1 Dec 2012


Discover the facts behind the Governments secret mission "Stealth Mission -
CURIOSITY," and the legitimate validation of ancient intelligence on Mars. However
much of what was learned during this mission still remains a secret. This
presentation includes the most up to date images and telemetry from over six
probe missions providing the widest coverage possible of the Martian surface.


http://www.enterprisemission.com/videos.html