NASA Confirms Liquid Water on Mars!

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Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that "flowing liquid water" exists on Mars, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Monday morning.
Imaging instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter identified evidence of "hydrated minerals" called perchlorates that have formed streaks on slopes on Mars' surface, the agency said.
"The most exciting thing about the announcement today is that it would be possible to have life on Mars," said NASA's John Grunsfeld at a press conference Monday.

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Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months onMars, according to researchers who say the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life.
The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop.

“There is liquid water today on the surface of Mars,” Michael Meyer, the lead scientist on Nasa’s Mars exploration programme, told the Guardian. “Because of this, we suspect that it is at least possible to have a habitable environment today.”

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars

The Martian is now dated, lol!

inb4 Nestle bottles it and sells it all.

Would be funny to bring a MARS Bar on Mars.

WTF is Mars Bar? ._.

I don't think I have ever seen a Mars bar at a store before? And if I did, it probably got discontinued many many years ago.

Mecha wrote:

I don't think I have ever seen a Mars bar at a store before? And if I did, it probably got discontinued many many years ago.

They're pretty much in every store over here in Scandinavia. No clue whether they are popular in the US, however. 

They taste good, though.

It could be one of those cases where New Orleans doesn't have it, but everyone else does. Like for example, we don't have Dave & Buster's or Jack In The Box in New Orleans.

Mecha wrote:

It could be one of those cases where New Orleans doesn't have it, but everyone else does. Like for example, we don't have Dave & Buster's or Jack In The Box in New Orleans.

That's kind of odd? Then again, the US is a huge city with over 50 states, so it makes sense that some states have stuff that others don't. I don't know, I'm just speculating, of course.

@RamboOnRedBull I think it's because New Orleans already has the French Quarter, Mardi Gras and our own kinds of food for some companies to even bother to try to expand here.

Mecha wrote:

@RamboOnRedBull I think it's because New Orleans already has the French Quarter, Mardi Gras and our own kinds of food for some companies to even bother to try to expand here.

Poor Mecha. First he loses Hannibal, and now he'll never taste a MARS bar. 

Poor fella. 

@RamboOnRedBull That's okay. We'll get a taste of Hannibal going to space next year.

We have Mars here, but it's certainly not as popular as Snickers/Twix/hersheys/kitkat.

Mars isn't even that good so you're not missing much.

Anyways, water shmatter. If you find oil, let us know cause....

Maars bars are all over New Orleans.

Angelus wrote:

Maars bars are all over New Orleans.

It's because Mecha never actually goes out.

Maybe Mars bars are so plain looking that I never even noticed. The next time I go to the store, I'll be fully aware of it.

Mecha wrote:

The Martian is now dated, lol!

The ironic part is that Ridley Scott says he already knew:

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"I knew that months ago," he told Yahoo Movies when the site brought up NASA's groundbreaking discovery.

"When I first talked to NASA, we got into all kinds of stuff and I said, 'So I know you’ve got down there [these] massive glaciers,'" Scott told Yahoo Movies. "And he said, ‘Yeah, that the massive white thing [on the surface of Mars] that gets covered with dust, we think that’s ice.' And I said, 'Wow! Does that mean there was an ocean? Are we right now what Mars was 750 million years ago?' And they went, 'Uh, good question.' So they want to go up there and find out.'"

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/ridley-scott-nasa-told-me-about-water-on-mars-before-the-rest-of-the-world?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&utm_medium=IGN%20(front%20page)&utm_content=2&utm_campaign=Blogroll&abthid=560ef8c592194fae28000015

We've known it's had ice for years. And the surface temperature can reach 70 degrees during the day in the summer (although it's thin atmosphere can barely retain any heat). So I assumed we already knew ice would thaw out during the day and refreeze during the night?

http://deadline.com/2015/10/martian-tops-100-million-55-million-international-box-office-the-walk-1201566927/