Thread: Water? On MY Mars?

I'm sure water exists on the moon, if we dig down far enough. I wonder why they would ever would assume there wouldn't be any water.

shit breaks down. Oxygen and Hydrogen like to stick together. Shit makes water.

yea really... What the hell does water really mean..... "Does it mean that there may have been life on mars"? And if so, what the hell good does it do us knowing if there was or wasn't... If its ice they found, ice it will stay... For at least a long time.... No use to us, I expect the world to be over long before we find a use for the red planet.

They found water on mars right here:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html

Originally Posted by Rooster050

yea really... What the hell does water really mean..... "Does it mean that there may have been life on mars"? And if so, what the hell good does it do us knowing if there was or wasn't... If its ice they found, ice it will stay... For at least a long time.... No use to us, I expect the world to be over long before we find a use for the red planet.

if theres water that pretty much means the planet can sustain life. Water is the first step in starting up plant life. and what is water made out of? oxygen and hydrogen? isnt oxygen that stuff that we breathe?

Problem with mars is it has no magnetic core. THe magnetosphere is crucial to keeping certain compounds in and others out. IE, we will not terraform Mars; period. Saturn is more likely but still unlikely.

I wrote a research paper for my Planetary Geology class about the potential of terraforming plantes such as mars.

Also,

Water is not important because it contains oxygen, well not entirely, oxygen and two hydrogen together is very special. It is important because of the unique ability hydrogen bond. Polar interactions make water less dense when frozen. Everything else increases density as temperature decreases, except water. The Hydrogen bonds cause it to form a lattice at freezing temperatures actually increasing volume, but not mass. If water froze the way everything else did, life would not exist as we know it. This is Ch101 stuff for the most part.

Oxygen is all over in forms that are unusable to us... Silicates, (SOn), Carbonates (COn). Mangenates (MgOn), etc. Most rocks are made primarily of silicates, and they are all over the place. Mars is covered with Iron Oxides for example.

Every single interaction in organic systems uses redox reactions; and they have to use water. from the dissolution of glycosidic linkages in the starch you get energy from to the polar bonding protein folding your energy goes to build, it all uses water. well... Hydroxyls and Carboxyls (OH, CO) which yield water or use water to operate.