Its so familiar. If you stepped out onto the Martian surface without an environmental suit you'd experience a horrible death in seconds or minutes. But its so temping though, no?
Its so familiar. If you stepped out onto the Martian surface without an environmental suit you'd experience a horrible death in seconds or minutes. But its so temping though, no?
Perhaps one day far in the future, when an astronaut has died on Mars, they'll put the body outside, unprotected, and see what happens to it. Too morbid?
Its so familiar. If you stepped out onto the Martian surface without an environmental suit you'd experience a horrible death in seconds or minutes. But its so temping though, no?
Perhaps one day far in the future, when an astronaut has died on Mars, they'll put the body outside, unprotected, and see what happens to it. Too morbid?
Richard G.
There's actually great concern about humans contaminating the Red Planet. They're developing regulations and procedures in the event a person dies on the surface of Mars. We don't want them rotting out in the open. Most likely if they must be left on the surface they will have to be put into special body bags.
Nice, but we already generally know what to expect from surveying the scenery from just about anywhere on the surface of Mars. One of the reasons why Mars looks the same everywhere you look is because . . . life never existed there to help bind the water to the planet.
Now we need to see the surface in fine detail of Arrokoth, aka Ultima Thule. Pretty please.
There's actually great concern about humans contaminating the Red Planet. They're developing regulations and procedures in the event a person dies on the surface of Mars. We don't want them rotting out in the open. Most likely if they must be left on the surface they will have to be put into special body bags.
Sure, but Martians can come to Earth and rot all they like.
Nice, but we already generally know what to expect from surveying the scenery from just about anywhere on the surface of Mars. One of the reasons why Mars looks the same everywhere you look is because . . . life never existed there to help bind the water to the planet.
Now we need to see the surface in fine detail of Arrokoth, aka Ultima Thule. Pretty please.
Its pretty much agreed Mars hospitality for life was short lived. Realistically all we expected to find was evidence of microbes, living or dead. There's still a chance microbes could be living underground. But I agree we're not finding any encouraging evidence Mars had life or has life.
Its pretty much agreed Mars hospitality for life was short lived. Realistically all we expected to find was evidence of microbes, living or dead. There's still a chance microbes could be living underground. But I agree we're not finding any encouraging evidence Mars had life or has life.
I strongly urge you to read James Lovelock's Ages Of Gaia, Sol. There's an hilarious jibe in there about not needing to go there to know there's no life on the planet. Zip! I'll give you a hint: spectroscopy. The most confusing aspect about the planet, as far as my limited ability to understand such things goes, is the fluctuating seasonal methane levels detected in the atmosphere. I suspect the methane content has something to do with the past history of those extremely localised, dormant and unlikely volcanoes that can be pinpointed on the surface. Personally, I'd like to see the results of a recent sizeable enough impact that can light up Mars' deep inner guts from the Insight Mars lander POV to see if there's massive evidence that impactors caused those volcanic zones on the planetary surface. I don't think there's really any doubt about that particular story. You only have to look at the overall Martian surface to have some semblance of what must have happened once upon a time, long ago.
