 Parzival  | 25 Jul 2018 10:58 a.m. PST |
Scientist announce the discovery of a lake on Mars, a mile under a Martian ice cap: link |
| Gunfreak | 25 Jul 2018 11:22 a.m. PST |
The Finns will be ice bathing in it by the end of the week. |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Jul 2018 2:38 p.m. PST |
"Darn, they found our stash!" Dan
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| Gunfreak | 26 Jul 2018 9:23 a.m. PST |
Apperantly it's a one dimensional lake it's 20km wide but has no length.
Mars is a, strange place. |
| Bowman | 26 Jul 2018 4:23 p.m. PST |
According to the original article more of a perchlorate brine than what we would call water. link (Proxy science and colourful graph warning) |
| mjkerner | 26 Jul 2018 8:05 p.m. PST |
Hey, thanks for the trigger warning. All that scienty stuff make head hurt! |
| Andrew Walters | 27 Jul 2018 10:30 a.m. PST |
"Lake" – sure, it's 0.9 of a mile underground, and is topped by ice, not air. Isn't that just an aquifer? And the temperature and salinity are insane. It's an underground perchlorate slushy. But if you want to be romantic, sure, "lake". |
| Andrew Walters | 27 Jul 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
Also, if I understand things right, and admittedly that would be a first, what has been detected is the interface between some water ice and some liquid water. The thickness of the water is unknown. It may be a "lake" 12 miles across and one inch deep. Actually, it looks like one of those articles has a researcher saying the water layer could be three feet thick. So, maybe put double quotes around "lake". |
| Gunfreak | 28 Jul 2018 2:46 a.m. PST |
Earth has millions if not billions of lakes we're living in lake privilege, Mars has that puddle. Just as a blow-up swimming pool is a 50-meter Olympic pool for someone who is poor, some muddy toxic salty sludge is a lake for lake deprived Mars. |
| goragrad | 28 Jul 2018 11:36 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jul 2018 12:46 p.m. PST |
A Dead Sea, probably just the first of many such finds. Dan |
| mandt2 | 29 Jul 2018 2:13 p.m. PST |
One lousy fossil. That's all we need is a fossil of a Martian trilobite, and the universe becomes a very different place. |
