An MIT-led team of planetary scientists has found that the southern pole of Mars contains the largest deposit of frozen water in the inner solar system, outside of Earth.
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Huh? So more ice than on Mercury and Venus? Or does the "inner solar system" include the asteroid belt?
Anyway, this part is interesting:
The new results show that water, not carbon dioxide, is the predominant frozen liquid found in the southern polar region of Mars, said Maria Zuber, MIT professor of geophysics.
Zuber said scientists have suspected that the southern polar cap of Mars is comprised of a thin veneer of carbon dioxide that rests atop a layer of dust and ice. However, scientists have also observed a surrounding area much larger than the polar cap that is dark and smooth, and it was uncertain whether that region was also composed of dust or ice--or both.
"What we found is that water ice is the dominant constituent beneath a thin dust veneer," said Zuber, lead author of a paper on the work appearing in the Sept. 21 issue of Science.
Yay frozen liquid water!
Happy Birthday, Emmett!
Glad you're getting sprung, ita. And I hope the headache stays away for good.
yay for being sprung!
and Happy birthday Emmett!
I don't know if anyone else is as thrilled as I am, but the New York Times has discontinued its Times Select service, which makes you pay for the archives and their biggest name opinion people. I have to work tonight, so I may spend the wee hours trolling through a few years of Maureen Dowd's columns.
I read that (here actually) but haven't taken advantage.
I successfully moved my iTunes (kit & kaboodle) from the iBook to the HP Pavilion this afternoon, with all my ratings and playcounts and playlists intact. The only thing that seems to have suffered are the album covers. Go team me!
I slept in both yesterday and today, but after leavingthe house for 2 events and pushing mac in the chair for a fair amount I am again EXHAUSTED. In the course of the last 3 hours I drank on a ginormous Pepsi, but I swear I could fall asleep again right now.
Mnnf. I have a headache, but it's a little one, and I'm in my own home and I've showered and socialised gently and am fed, and so I'm going to take another Tums (UCLA Westwood now gives out Pepcid as standard meds (to adults only, I'm assuming) because hospitalisation is stressful and can give you an ulcer--this is new, because the first time I was admitted I didn't get any--I refused mine, for some reason) and nap sitting up.
Yup. Was crocs. I can never remember the one from the other.
There was a Bond movie that had long snappy beast in it and they filmed bits in Jamaica, but whatever we normally have there isn't the same snappy beast and now I'm very confused and I should probably just go for the nap and stop trying to use my brain.
I think it's probably fine, Sue.
Yay for EMMETTDAY!
