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Running water on the surface of MarsThe Mars Global Surveyor, which has taken over a quarter of a million
shots of Mars had been going over old ground, as its orbit dictated, and
took a picture of a crater wall that it had previously shot – and
found something that hadn’t been there before: A white trace that
looks exactly like the trace left by a rivulet of water leaving a deposit.
Compare the
two images for yourself.
The only explanation that can be proposed at the moment is that Martian
water is under pressure and occasionally squirts out through the enclosing
layer of frozen water, sometimes forming deposits as seen in this picture.
Of course it could have been a one in a trillion chance that this happened
– and that there just happened to be a satellite in orbit to see
it. But that’s a very unlikely coincidence, it’s more likely
that this is is happening all of the time. Life on Mars?Which brings us full circle. There may not be ancient Martian civilisations
or great canals of water, but there is water in abundance and beneath
the surface it seems to be liquid. It would be a very hostile environment
but how much more hostile than the bottom of the ocean in black smokers
with water temperatures in the 100s of degrees? Or the Atacama desert
where there is no water or water vapour and hasn’t been for thousands
of years? There are microbiological creatures that live in acid, alkalines,
high radiation, inside rocks, at ultra-high pressure, process methane
instead of oxygen, and live in pools of benzene. And that’s just
on Earth.
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