Lunar Update: NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars

MRO has been going around Mars for a number of years and sending back a lot of data.

Then the fun comes and the data gets analyzed.

The result is seen on the 6 o'clock news, there seems to be water on Mars.

FOLLOW THE WATER

http://marsmobile.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/overview/

Next -- knock knock, who's there?

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
Sept 28, 2015

Release 15-195

These dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. Recently, planetary scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, corroborating their original hypothesis that the streaks are indeed formed by liquid water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks are thought not to be related to their formation, but instead are from the presence of the mineral pyroxene. The image is produced by draping an orthorectified (Infrared-Red-Blue/Green(IRB)) false color image (ESP_030570_1440) on a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the same site produced by High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (University of Arizona). Vertical exaggeration is 1.5.

Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Full image and caption

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As posted on JPL website.

Some YouTube videos

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4722

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars

NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons. They appear in several locations on Mars when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius), and disappear at colder times.

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The MRO website with more about the orbiter and instruments.

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/main/index.html

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Images and links to more information. - LRK -

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/mission/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro-20081211.html

http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/

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