And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
After almost 50 missions to Mars, science can proudly claim that the planet contains sand and something that looks like ice. Seems like all that $$$ could be spent better elsewhere.
Pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteIt is probably frozen carbon dioxide though. Any idea what the scale is we are looking at, Feet, yards...miles?
ESA - Water ice in crater at Martian north
ReplyDeleteThe crater is 35 kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometres beneath the crater rim.
I watched it for 20 minutes. Is it going to do something?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't activate until the 23 minute mark, then it starts gurgling and popping. Like the mudpots at Yellowstone.
DeleteAfter almost 50 missions to Mars, science can proudly claim that the planet contains sand and something that looks like ice. Seems like all that $$$ could be spent better elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI got rid of my ice skates yearrrrrrrrrrrrs ago.
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