Exploring Mars for Habitable Environments - David Des Marais (SETI Talks)

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Recent Mars missions have discovered fascinating landscapes as well as chemicals and minerals formed by the action of liquid water. Mars could have been habitable sometime in the past, and liquid water might persist in some subsurface environments today. Dr. Dave Des Marais, Chair of the Mars Exploration Program Advisory Group (MEPAG), will discuss recent discoveries that are helping to identify the most promising places to search for evidence of life.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mars
• SETI
• MEPAG
• Des Marais
• Ames
• NASA
• MER
• rovers
• life
• astrobiology

[pcangeldust]

I am a marsman

[johnsmdm]

gusev is a dead end...cmon guys....be more creative....

[smackbunny]

@WalterWalkie

I feel your pain.

More Mars less snookies!!

The world has to decide, is it snookie or is it vapid air pudding, or is it science?

Ummm, I know.

Pick me, pick me.

I'll take vapid air pudding for 1,000 Alex.

[WalterWalkie]

i wish mars was a fraction as interesting to the average american as snookie

[daswada9]

just think if they find a human skull in Mars :D

[johnjaksic61]

An excellent talk and very informative!

[krishnarajsankar111]

Great speech about habitability of Mars could be studied before some studies of Asteroids. I presume the asteroids may be some broken pieces of planet already existed and broken by impact of a comet and living beings therein being carried from that place to Earth by the UFOs. However UFOs whether they travel faster than the following parameters: sound, light, faster-than-light, or faster than thought or equally travel as time could travel between brains of living beings. Brains are universes.

[polymath7]

Fascinating.

I fervently hope, someday within my lifetime, to see a paleontological expedition to Mars, and -just within the boundaries of possibly- fossil evidence of some kind of extinct Martian fauna.