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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 28, 2015 - 07:54am PT
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Press conference in a half hour or so on something new from Mars.
Water is my assumption.
Cool stuff!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Sep 28, 2015 - 07:58am PT
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paging Chris Owen
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2015 - 08:01am PT
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Liquid water, should have been more specific.
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Norton
Social climber
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Sep 28, 2015 - 08:15am PT
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Mars has water on its surface, and it's in liquid form at least some of the time.
NASA on Monday announced the results of a new study showing that salty liquid water flows seasonally on Mars, giving the red planet one of the essential ingredients for life.
The study, published online by Nature Geoscience, focuses on the mysterious recurring slope lineae, or "RSL" -- narrow, streaky features on the planet's surface spotted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
The RSL are typically about 15 feet in width or smaller, and appear on slopes during the planet's warm seasons. They fade during cooler seasons, then reappear the following year as the planet gets warmer again.
While NASA has suspected that the RSL are made of salty brine, previous analyses of data from the spacecraft's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer have found neither salt nor water.
"These soggy streaks suggest that there are vast reserves of underground water, presumably the last remains of lakes that may have once dotted the landscapes of this planet," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research, who was not involved in the new study.
"Consequently, if life began billions of years ago during Mars' more clement youth, its progeny could still be hiding out a few feet underfoot," he said. "That would make the task of finding some red planet biology far easier."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 28, 2015 - 08:23am PT
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Didn't Cosmic leave Locker there once by mistake?
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 28, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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Tito Puente
Salty water flowing to Tito's salsa beats.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 28, 2015 - 09:25am PT
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Doesn't Werner have a vacation home there?
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 28, 2015 - 09:25am PT
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Missing socks at the other end of the dryer portals.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Sep 28, 2015 - 09:26am PT
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Cool stuff Brandon!!! tfpu.
But if they find an Ark now, I'm calling bullsh#t.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2015 - 09:28am PT
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Likewise.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Sep 28, 2015 - 10:51am PT
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^^^ I hear it's on the moon.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Sep 28, 2015 - 11:18am PT
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Wow. I rarely go to Supertopo, but when I do it's for news like this.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Sep 28, 2015 - 01:05pm PT
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If true then it means colonization is feasible, but I am suspicious. Has anybody else noticed the timing of this and the release of a certain Matt Damon film?
;)
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Sep 28, 2015 - 01:22pm PT
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Sep 28, 2015 - 01:25pm PT
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This is an amazing and Very Important Discovery. Interesting that NASA could first confirm Pluto has a signifiant nitrogen ice. Who'dAThunk?
Strong implications for water in other places out there.
And then life? I hope I live long enough to learn the answer to that question!
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Psilocyborg
climber
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Sep 29, 2015 - 04:54pm PT
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Everyone know that mushroom spores traveled here from Mars, landed, spread across the land, the monkees at them, and evolved higher brain functions to build space ships to travel to Mars so it can feed on your now large and delicious BRAINS! Mwahahahaha
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 29, 2015 - 08:30pm PT
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So does this mean El Niño has hit Mars, too?
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Sep 29, 2015 - 09:12pm PT
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Mars has water.
Kind of, in your face California
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