October 17, 2020
Meanwhile on Mars, 2020 Looms...
.... far in the future, because (for some unfathomable reason) NASA apparently chose to start counting at Martian year one in our 1956.
In this 64th year of Martian history, ESA's Martian Express probe has detected large lakes under the South Polar icecap.
One of our Crack Team of Science Babes discusses the implications...
"Planet Mars. Liquid water. The Space Opera writes itself."
The lakes cover 75,000 square kilometers, a bit more than 91% of Lake Superior's 82,100 km. Depth and therefore volume are unknown at this time. Similar lakes are known to exist beneath the icecaps of Antarctica, Greenland, and the Canadian Archipelago, so this is not entirely unexpected. It is interesting though, both because it might represent a ready resource for future Martian settlements, and because such place could potentially be a haven for life
(Though that latter case could put up a major obstacle to proposed attempts to terraform the red planet.)
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This is merely confirmation of something many of us already knew: ARIA was a documentary.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sat Oct 17 13:42:26 2020 (vNkOW)
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What the Duck said.
Aside: in my future history novels of Machine Civilization, there is talk in my short story collection, "Empire's Agent,"* of terraforming Mars as Earth enters another Maunder Minimum/Ice Age. I also let drop that one of the AI's of tribe Arpeggio from Milan is named Aqua. Foreshadowing, much?
*There's a pic on the back cover of Nichole 5 showing off her bikini next to one of the defunct rovers.
Aside: in my future history novels of Machine Civilization, there is talk in my short story collection, "Empire's Agent,"* of terraforming Mars as Earth enters another Maunder Minimum/Ice Age. I also let drop that one of the AI's of tribe Arpeggio from Milan is named Aqua. Foreshadowing, much?
*There's a pic on the back cover of Nichole 5 showing off her bikini next to one of the defunct rovers.
Posted by: Clayton Barnett at Mon Oct 19 17:00:51 2020 (ug1Mc)
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