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 Alert;...Something has been found on Marswww.nasa.gov. www.longislandpress.com. ig News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now, NPR "The exciting results are coming from an instrument in the rover called SAM. "We're getting data from SAM as we sit here and speak, and the data looks really interesting," John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the rover mission, says during my visit last week to his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. That's where data from SAM first arrive on Earth. "The science team is busily chewing away on it as it comes down," says Grotzinger. SAM is a kind of miniature chemistry lab. Put a sample of Martian soil or rock or even air inside SAM, and it will tell you what the sample is made of. Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says." Curiosity Rover's Secret Historic Breakthrough? Speculation Centers on Organic Molecules, Wired "The mystery will be revealed shortly, though. Grotzinger told Wired through e-mail that NASA would hold a press conference about the results during the 2012 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco from Dec. 3 to 7. Because it's so potentially earth-shaking, Grotzinger said the team remains cautious and is checking and double-checking their results. But while NASA is refusing to discuss the findings with anyone outside the team, especially reporters, other scientists are free to speculate." |
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jimmy hoffa? |
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brigadecommander 21-Nov-12, 20:36 |
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Found Awareness is being in the right place at the right time to fully benefit from being at the Black Friday sales. Life on Mars.....whats the big deal? Really...whats the big deal? There is life on this planet today. Like sixty bajillion million stars and we Earthlings have this ....hold my calls....gotta shop despite the economy. It will be a bit ironic when folks searching for life ( bacteria seem to be holding their own in this solar system) in other solar systems find people way advanced over "US". |
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ace_kyi 22-Nov-12, 14:24 |
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not moonshine, but Mars-shine Does it have to be a fossil of a life built? when even the building block of life would be awesome? What was found does not have to be evidence of a life that once flourished -- it is enough if the molecular basis of physiological life has been found -- whether native to Mars, or having piggybacked inside a meteor from elsewhere in our solar system -- or even beyond, from some chemical oasis in our Galaxy. ["The Murchison meteorite that fell near Murchison, Victoria, Australia in 1969 was found to contain over 90 different amino acids, nineteen of which are found in Earth life. The early Earth was bombarded heavily by comets, possibly providing a large supply of complex organic molecules along with the water and other volatiles they contributed."] I don't need an ET -- I would not need to see life to be amazed and inspired and transported -- don't even need a Methylomirabilis oxyfera bactrium, devouring methane and producing its own oxygen -- on Mars. More than enough would be to see that a brook of water (source of hydrogen and of oxygen) once flowed on the fourth planet, a river of methane, of ammonia --- all feedstocks which in a lightning strike can yield up in first-round reactions: hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, and other active, intermediate compounds (like acetylene and cyanoacetylene). The formaldehyde, the ammonia, and the hydrogen cyanide could next have reacted to form amino acids and other bio-molecules. If water Was present on Mars, then water and formaldehyde could have been present together to (potentially) produce various sugars like ribose, plus produce the nucleotide base, adenine. Add carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide to this primordial Martian soup -- you end up with amino acids, hydroxyacids, purines, pyrimidines, and sugars. Early conditions on the red planet (and what makes it red?) could have formed amino acids from the hydrogen cyanide and the ammonia =====> and even yielded RNA and DNA nucleobases. Add a volcano on Mars, and that could have generated another 22 amino acids, 5 amines, plus hydroxylated molecules. (It's why volcanic islands on earth become rich in life: rich in organic molecules from the lava flow.) Lots of hydroxylated molecules could have been formed from the hydroxyl radicals produced by an electrified steam: water plus lightning. The presence of carbonyl sulfide could have catalyzed the formation of molecules into peptides. If there's carbon -- and then oxygen from the water -- you add that lightning, and you may well end up with a carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide. Ultraviolet light reacting with the water vapor & the monoxide: UV-photolysis of water vapor with carbon monoxide yields aldehydes, organic acids, And alcohols -- not moonshine, but Mars-shine! |
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Well put shamash |
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so.... |
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news conference on Dec 2 or 3. |
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Evidence of basic life, Alien artefacts, A human finger, A Duracell battery. I list them in order of liklihood. The last two, I seriously doubt. |
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ace_kyi 27-Nov-12, 21:25 |
God's creation versus Darwin's evolution. |
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sorry about that |
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