Damn those Martians and their SUVs...

[Joe DeFuria]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-03-02-mars_x.htm

Opportunity has landed in an area of Mars where liquid water once drenched the surface," said Edward Weiler, associate NASA administrator for space science, at a news conference. "This area would have been a good, habitable environment."

It's easy enough to connect the dots: Martians, who apparently abused deodorant and like to drive SUVs to shuffle their kids to soccer games, caused a global catastrophy....cities sank, seas boiled, and that was that. I just hope that one of those rovers uncovers the "Ford Explorer" name plate to cast aside any doubt once and for all.

 

[epicstruggle]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-03-02-mars_x.htm

Opportunity has landed in an area of Mars where liquid water once drenched the surface," said Edward Weiler, associate NASA administrator for space science, at a news conference. "This area would have been a good, habitable environment."

It's easy enough to connect the dots: Martians, who apparently abused deodorant and like to drive SUVs to shuffle their kids to soccer games, caused a global catastrophy....cities sank, seas boiled, and that was that. I just hope that one of those rovers uncovers the "Ford Explorer" name plate to cast aside any doubt once and for all.

Does anyone know what type [temperature] range mars _could_ have carried if it had an atmosphere? Maybe the question is inheriantly unaswerable since we dont know what type of atmosphere it had.

later,
epic
[edit] forgot a word

 

[pax]

Im wondering if we can find out when mars started to get colder. If it correlated with the earth's own cooling 65 million years ago...

 

[DemoCoder]

The most convincing theory for me was that Mars lost it's magnetic field and the atmosphere was simply whithered away by the solar wind. Couple that with the difference in gravity that makes it even easier for it to be stripped away.