Astro-Image of the Day: Methane on Mars!

[mckitterick]

Okay, this is exciting as all get-out. A new study reveals methane in the atmosphere of Mars, suggesting that Mars is still alive, either biologically or geologically.


Click the image to see the story.

Click here to see an animation of one theory for the methane production.

Damn, Mars gets cooler all the time.

Chris

Comments

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

I love these posts.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you like 'em.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

And to my inexpert eye, this picture does not show "questionable polar icecaps." Perhaps our problem is not so much where we've been landing as expectations. We've been so programmed, as a culture, to expect Martian life to be A: Complex, B: Intelligent (even if not civilized) and C: Vaguely Humanoid or at least, recognizable to us.

Grumble grumble mutter

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

What I complained about on our KC mailing list is that the data was from 2003, and it seems to me that making a big announcement 6 years after you determined something is more than a bit peculiar.

I mean, if you did that with birth announcements, the kid would be in first grade before anyone heard about it.