Not sure who heard this news over the din of another stock market collapse, but the Aug. 5, 2011 edition of Science is reporting liquid water on Mars. Hello? Why aren’t more people excited? Sure, it only happens on the hottest Martian days, so far they are just looking at this one canyon area, and sure it is super salty or whatever…but isn’t this what we were all waiting for? The water is liquid and flowing now, not eons ago.
Read more about it here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/main/index.html
And here: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/is-mars-weeping-salty-tears.html
