I take it this is the color photo of the fluid.
Dark narrow streaks, up to a
few hundred yards long, are seen along many slopes on Mars
including Garni Crater. The identification of waterlogged salts in these
streaks fits with the idea that they are formed by the underground flow
of briny water that wets the surface.
Credit
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Arizona/NASA
Okay, now we're cooking. This is a significant area of Mars. There is definitely a fluid causing soil erosion.
A time-lapse animation of Palikir Crater, below,
shows how the streaks extend and darken during warmer months on Mars,
then gradually fade as temperatures cool.
So,
I am assuming the reason NASA believes this is water is because the
change in temperature and change in PHASE (solid as ice and fluid as
water) matches that of water.
Cool. Mars has a summer and a winter. Interesting. So, it has seasons similar to Earth.
Okay,
so this is the dilemma. Mars obviously has seasons that parallel Earth.
And if this is water since the primary gas of the Mars troposphere is
carbon dioxide where is the green stuff? Chlorophyll. Genetics is very
sticky stuff. There are mutations that occur all the time. We have some
very funky life forms on Earth including at Sulfur Vents in the Oceans.
28 September 2015
By Jason Koebler
So there's probably flowing water on Mars. (click here) But before you book tickets to the Palikir Crater Club Med, you’ll probably want to know just a bit about Mars's hottest new destination.Monday, NASA announced that the crater is home to what are probably present day brine flows. That potentially makes it one of the most important places to look for life moving forward. We've known for a few years now that Palikir has the streak formations that NASA now believes suggests there's still water there today—but even that hasn't made it a prime location to send a rover or eventual manned mission. Monday's discovery may change that, because, well, now we’re reasonably sure there’s something to actually investigate there....
