Scientists have for the first time confirmed liquid water flowing on the surface of present-day Mars, a finding that will add to speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist now.
“This is tremendously exciting,” James L. Green, the director of NASA’s planetary science division, said during a news conference on Monday. “We haven’t been able to answer the question, ‘Does life exist beyond Earth?’ But following the water is a critical element of that. We now have, I think, great opportunities in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that.”
That represents a shift in tone for NASA, where officials have repeatedly played down the notion that the dusty and desolate landscape of Mars could be inhabited today.
But now, John M. Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science, talked of sending a spacecraft in the 2020s to one of these regions, perhaps with experiments to directly look for life.
“I can’t imagine that it won’t be a high priority with the scientific community,” he said.
I think now the bullies called Americans will fast track their quest to move over there. Most of us niccurs in Africa don’t have a chance of EVER landing there.
As little as I know, cosmic radiations and freezing temp in Mars can’t allow even bonobo to live there. Amount of money to reclaim Mars may be enough to create a planet near earth using meteorites and hovering asteroids.
what makes finding water interesting…maybe other beings dont need it for survival…we need to find out where the martians went to after the “big war”… all those artifacts and manmade like structures cant be mere coinsidence and a credited to nature