Water on Mars
1. "...the finding of simple structures in a region in which there is evidence that water passed leaving both carbonate minerals and organic detritus might be the best evidence we have yet for the existence of past life on our sister planet."
2. "The planet is not a desert of arid rocks. It lives; the development of its life is revealed by a whole system of very complicated transformations, of which some cover areas extreme enough to be visible to the inhabitants of the Earth."
3. "The huge outflow channels are solid evidence of a great deal of water on the surface in the distant past --oceanic amounts of water. Some is still there to be seen in the polar caps, some of it no doubt escaped into space, the rest is quite certainly under the surface, frozen in permafrost."
4. "From the evidence we have assembled, we now know that that large oceans existed during Period II on Mars (otherwise, there would be no vast flow channels when their tidal lock was suddenly released); that an atmosphere dense enough to permit a greenhouse effect to keep that water liquid also had to exist (otherwise, there would have been no "liquid water" in such vast amounts); and that such an atmosphere had to have contained ... abundant amounts of free oxygen"
1. "...the finding of simple structures in a region in which there is evidence that water passed leaving both carbonate minerals and organic detritus might be the best evidence we have yet for the existence of past life on our sister planet."
- From an article by Andre Brack and Colin T. Pillinger in Extremophiles.2. "The planet is not a desert of arid rocks. It lives; the development of its life is revealed by a whole system of very complicated transformations, of which some cover areas extreme enough to be visible to the inhabitants of the Earth."
- Quotation from Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli.3. "The huge outflow channels are solid evidence of a great deal of water on the surface in the distant past --oceanic amounts of water. Some is still there to be seen in the polar caps, some of it no doubt escaped into space, the rest is quite certainly under the surface, frozen in permafrost."
- From "An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson" on Space.com.4. "From the evidence we have assembled, we now know that that large oceans existed during Period II on Mars (otherwise, there would be no vast flow channels when their tidal lock was suddenly released); that an atmosphere dense enough to permit a greenhouse effect to keep that water liquid also had to exist (otherwise, there would have been no "liquid water" in such vast amounts); and that such an atmosphere had to have contained ... abundant amounts of free oxygen"
- From Richard C. Hoagland and Michael Bara "A new model of Mars as a former captured satellite: bi-modal distribution of key features due to ancient tidal stress?"
1. "...the finding of simple structures in a region in which there is evidence that water passed leaving both carbonate minerals and organic detritus might be the best evidence we have yet for the existence of past life on our sister planet."
- From Andre Brack and Colin T. Pillinger "Life on Mars: chemical arguments and clues from Martian meteorites" in Extremophiles 2 (3): pp313-319 (1998). (a peer reviewed journal).2. "The planet is not a desert of arid rocks. It lives; the development of its life is revealed by a whole system of very complicated transformations, of which some cover areas extreme enough to be visible to the inhabitants of the Earth."
- Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli as quoted in C. Flammarion, La planete Mars, et ses conditions d'habitabilité (1892) vol. 1, p.510.3. "The huge outflow channels are solid evidence of a great deal of water on the surface in the distant past --oceanic amounts of water. Some is still there to be seen in the polar caps, some of it no doubt escaped into space, the rest is quite certainly under the surface, frozen in permafrost."
- From "An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson" on Space.com 26 June 2000 at [http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/kim_stanley_robinson_interview_000626.html]4. "From the evidence we have assembled, we now know that that large oceans existed during Period II on Mars (otherwise, there would be no vast flow channels when their tidal lock was suddenly released); that an atmosphere dense enough to permit a greenhouse effect to keep that water liquid also had to exist (otherwise, there would have been no "liquid water" in such vast amounts); and that such an atmosphere had to have contained ... abundant amounts of free oxygen"
- From Richard C. Hoagland and Michael Bara "A new model of Mars as a former captured satellite: bi-modal distribution of key features due to ancient tidal stress?" at [http://www.enterprisemission.com/tides.htm] (The Enterprise Mission resides at PO Box 3550 Edgewood New Mexico.)