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- O.K. I said I would be gone for a few weeks. But then
NASA suddenly announced TWO possible new missions to Mars in 2003. They
intend to send two big rovers that they will send rolling over the surface
for months on end-- and they will send them to places where they have seen
evidence for water in the past. At least that is what they say. But I believe
there is an excellent chance they actually want to send them rolling right
up to some of those nice dark streams of water we have seen springing out
of the sides of the hills, craters and canyons of Mars. I would certainly
be inclined to do that, were I planning the missions. And I believe NASA
will as well. If you are looking for biological life, it just makes sense
to go where the liquid water is.
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- http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/27/mars.rover/index.html
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- I think the unspoken translation of this article is that
NASA is looking for evidence of Martian life right now, today -- not fossilized
evidence for life millions or billions of years ago. I believe there is
a strong possibility that NASA will announce there is life on Mars when
they send these rovers there in a few years. In fact, I suspect they already
know, or very strongly suspect the presence of Martian life, due in part
to the evidence that I have discussed in my previous Mars reports. (Note:
I am not saying that the planners at NASA are taking their cues from me.
Clearly they are not. I mean that I believe that they have also noticed
the things that you and I have seen and much more, since it is clear we
are only seeing a portion of the Mars photos, at a considerable time delay,
and a good number of the ones that we are seeing have obvious quality problems.)
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- I have an e-pal who recently toured the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. She reports that the sense she got from the NASA promotional
materials and exhibits related to Mars that are on display is that NASA
may be thinking of a human mission to Mars by decade's end. And just maybe
they are. Maybe a couple of rover missions to "discover" life
on Mars would be just the public relations boost that NASA needs to send
a human crew there. Because from a political point of view, the money is
not there at present for a major, public program to send human crews into
interplanetary space. (What goes on in the black budget realm may be a
different story, from a public policy view.)
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- Here are this installment's photos. More water. That
is what I believe we may be seeing in these photos. I personally have easily
seen hundreds of springs and seeps in the subset of the Mars photos that
I have viewed, and they give every appearance of being water sources. If
that is the correct interpretation, a very conservative extrapolation suggests
the probable presence of thousands and thousands of water sources on Mars.
It also looks like this liquid is present in very large amounts not too
far below the surface -- only a few tens of feet down in many places.
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- 1. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/nonmaps/AB111304.gif
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- Here's a nice big crater on Medusae Fossae that has dozens
and dozens of springs flowing from its rim. Found on Mars Chart 23- Aeolis.
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- 2. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/nonmaps/SP126703.gif
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- The long ridge on the center right of the photo has dozens
of springs pouring from its side. The image is about 12 miles from top
to bottom. The largest dark streak would be about 1/3 of a mile long. This
shot and all of the following photos are from Mars Chart 9-- Tharsis.
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- 3. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0105151.html
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- More springs.
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- 4. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/mediummaps/M0102042.jpg
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- More springs from the central ridge, but the photo is
very fuzzy.
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- 5. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/nonmaps/M0202582.gif
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- More springs from the sides of the canyon. In the Ceraunius
Fossae region.
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- 6. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/nonmaps/M0306759.gif
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- Springs in the Olympica Fossae Graben.
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- 7. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/nonmaps/M0000057.gif
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- Transect of the Olympica Fossae. Scroll down about 50%
of the way for more springs.
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- 8. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0203652.html
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- To my eye this image offers plain evidence of flowing
water and lots and lots of it. It also does not look as if the flow happened
billions or hundreds of millions of years ago (as NASA claims).
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- The more I look at Mars, the more evidence I notice of
huge amounts of water in the past, and appreciable amounts of what certainly
appears to be flowing water today. Right now. Not oceans of it, to be sure,
but there does seem to be a plentiful liquid reservoir just below the surface
of large areas of Mars. I would not be at all surprised to learn that that
reservoir is full of liquid water. There is lots of life in underground
caverns here on Earth. Bats, fish, microbes. What might be living beneath
the surface in the caverns of Mars?
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