Flowing Water On Mars

MGS Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars

Bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.

Liquid water, as opposed to the water ice and water vapor known to exist at Mars, is considered necessary for life. The new findings heighten intrigue about the potential for microbial life on Mars. The Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor provide the new evidence of the deposits in images taken in 2004 and 2005.

The atmosphere of Mars is so thin and the temperature so cold that liquid water cannot
persist at the surface. It would rapidly evaporate or freeze. Researchers propose that
water could remain liquid long enough, after breaking out from an underground source, to carry debris downslope before totally freezing. The two fresh deposits are each several hundred meters long.

The light tone of the deposits could be from surface frost continuously replenished by ice within the body of the deposit. Another possibility is a salty crust, which would be a sign of water's effects in concentrating the salts. If the deposits had resulted from dry dust slipping down the slope, they would likely be dark, based on the dark tones of dust freshly disturbed by rover tracks, dust devils and fresh craters on Mars.

The images are the first to reveal newly deposited material apparently carried by fluids after earlier imaging of the same gullies. The two sites are inside craters in the Terra Sirenum and the Centauri Montes regions of southern Mars.

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[WLordnDRanch12]

Nasa spends millions on building rovers, satelites, ships, rockets and lots of equipment but they cant spend and extra couple of thousand for a fucking good decent camera for once?

[Burnmatic]

Maybe it's not getting over the edge, but flows right through the mountain, through the ground. Like an underground river. =)

[Foresaken10]

There is more to this briefing.. I actually caught the second part of it with a different guy speaking and showing some more pics and a CGI graphic.. cant find that part anywhere.. Can anyone help me out with finding this plz? Facinating stuff.. Lets send some astronaughts there ffs and prove it for sure:)

[Orrintl]

Could it be lava? Just a thought..

[halflifefreak1]

Bored with old squirt guns? Get Mars squirt guns! now you can actually poison someone with it!

[Humandavid1]

squirting gun?? worst joke ever!!!

[Druidfull]

@WLordnDRanch12

This video is from 2006. Some people just cant FUCKING read the discription....

[drag00n77]

@WLordnDRanch12 dude they have the best cameras...they just give us the low res versions of some of their pics so that we wont be able to see the juicy stuff

[drag00n77]

@Cossack007 those bastards......it was my plan to build a waterpark on mars....those fucking aliens are always stealing my ideas...like anti gravity technology

[jaredz88]

Cant an Alien take a piss? if u look at the top of the image u would see the Alien standing up top there pissin away

[NickasaurusStudio]

@Cossack007 LOL