Official caption for today’s NASA image:
“An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modelling shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars’ Newton crater. Sequences of observations recording the seasonal changes at this site and a few others with similar flows might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Evidence for that possible interpretation is presented in a report by McEwen et al. in the Aug. 5, 2011, edition of Science.”
A NASA report today says that the “dark, finger-like features” you can see in the photo appear during the spring and summer and fade in the winter. They think it means there’s some sort of water flowing there.
Read up, folks, and start inflating those inner tubes.
THXultra
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:05 AMcool beans, its probably pure acid or something though haha
Reoh
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 4:12 PMIf you blow the image up and look really closely, you can see that there’s actually a music festival going on and those lines are the overflows from the porta-loo’s.
djmcbell
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 4:33 PMPeople from the UK – “Huh… water on Mars… oh wait a minute, Amy Winehouse is still dead! OMG!!11!!!!”
People from America – “Water on Mars… this has to mean aliens! Ready the nukes!”