With Mars mission and rover Curiosity, NASA hunts building blocks of life

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Donger

They are going to test drive Curiosity today, BTW. Not a long drive, about 30 feet or so and then reverse.

Do they have to leave a copy of their driver's license and credit card with the sales rep while they test drive? I'd hate to be the person who hits a boulder and flips it. "Oops. Sorry. Uh... do I have to pay for that?"

[Hammock Parties]

doin donuts

I love the blaster cannon at the right. step off martians.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

I love the blaster cannon at the right. step off martians.

So that's what happened to Matrian life. They must have wrecked themselves before they checked themselves.

[Donger]

Curiosity's wheel tracks:

[Donger]

Wow:

[chefsos]

Interesting. The surface at the landing spot was nice, fluffy Martian sand, until the landing thrusters blew it away to reveal all those rocks.

[Donger]

Here's a better video (I think):

[Reerun_KC]

Mars is kinda boring now... Cant we go somewhere else?

[chasedude]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Mars is kinda boring now... Cant we go somewhere else?

Titan and Europa were mentioned earlier. Titan is like a premordial earth extremely volcanic and Europa (Scientists think) there's a liquid ocean underneath. Tidal gravity causing friction with Jupiter may give Europa enough warmth beyond the crust, even though it's so far from the sun for solar heat, to maybe have evolved life (at least as we know it).

Ganymede could be another option, molten core creating a magnetic field, 3/4 the size of mars and Galileo caught images of ice geysers shooting up and falling back as snow. Liquid water there too? Could be

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by chasedude

Titan and Europa were mentioned earlier. Titan is like a premordial earth extremely volcanic and Europa (Scientists think) there's a liquid ocean underneath. Tidal gravity causing friction with Jupiter may give Europa enough warmth beyond the crust, even though it's so far from the sun for solar heat, to maybe have evolved life (at least as we know it).

Ganymede could be another option, molten core creating a magnetic field, 3/4 the size of mars and Galileo caught images of ice geysers shooting up and falling back as snow. Liquid water there too? Could be

Too bad any landing we would attempt would be destroyed by a large, black obelisk.

[Planetman]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

Too bad any landing we would attempt would be destroyed by a large, black obelisk.

[chasedude]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

Too bad any landing we would attempt would be destroyed by a large, black obelisk.

1x4x9 square rooted = 1x2x3

[Fish]

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Rausch

There's a good chance Mars could have once given life to Earth or Earth to Mars

What?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

What?

I have no idea how it works, but there is a theory that life could have transferred between the two planets. I don't remember if it was back in the planet-forming phase or if it's something more recent.