Water, on Mars.

[theweaselking]

Comments

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

That's not water; the Graboids are coming!

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's water. It's still circumstantial evidence at this point.

But it would be fucking neat if true.

[jerril]

Yep :) Other things melt and become liquids, but water is a pretty decent guess at this point. But a guess.

My brain went derp and said "CO2?" at first, but the C02 "ice" on Mars just sublimates in the summer right? There's no freakish liquid phase that I somehow missed?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

My brain's a bit fuzzy, but IIRC liquid CO2 can only form under very high pressures... and Mars's atmosphere is much thinner than ours, so dry ice sublimates there at least as well as it does here.

-- Steve's rooting for the brine theory, himself.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

hmm. Still looks very like sand and dust flowing down from the lip of the crater to me :/

[poodlemama.livejournal.com]

Amazing pics - amazing. I guess people are plotting as I look at this, how to get there and fuck up that planet too now we've ruined this one. Sad.