Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations

[Binary_Bark]

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks.

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[Drifter]

Looks like the opening scenes of Hyena Road.

 

[Solarion]

Looks like Mar's has had a tumultuous history. Huge boulders laying scattered all over the place.

I think the landscape is beautiful, almost peaceful to look at.

 

[Mortymoose]

Looks like parts of Namibia....

For some reason I was laying in bed last night thinking about Mars..... it looks very similar to our earth, just without the water that we know it once had.....

What if it was in the same orbit as earth and supported life, even human life at that, perhaps more advanced than we are at now....

Take a step further, they spot a large body heading on a collision course with MARS and bail ship to the next best thing, The Earth,

The celestial body slams into Mars, knocking it into a new orbit where life is no longer sustainable...

I find it fascinating that there be a sliver of Oxygen on Mars........

/Moose needs to get drunk again sometime to ponder the wonders of the universe.....

 

[Binary_Bark]

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/Moose needs to get drunk again sometime to ponder the wonders of the universe.....

We already know earth and mars shares the same kind of rock in some places, this is due to ancient asteroid impacts that jettisoned material into space and landed on the neighboring planet.
Mars is also in the Goldilocks zone, it was just too small to hold on to it's atmosphere, this was a cause of the Core solidifying halting the generating of the magnetic field that protects the planet from the solar flares thus slowly removing the atmosphere

 

[Mortymoose]

We already know earth and mars shares the same kind of rock in some places, this is due to ancient asteroid impacts that jettisoned material into space and landed on the neighboring planet.
Mars is also in the Goldilocks zone, it was just too small to hold on to it's atmosphere, this was a cause of the Core solidifying halting the generating of the magnetic field that protects the planet from the solar flares thus slowly removing the atmosphere

Thanks for that, still wonder if it is possible for a large celestial object to knock a planet onto a new orbit....

i watched the old TV series From The Earth To The Moon last month, unbelievable what man has achieved in such a short period. Since then every time I stand staring at the moon, I look at it in a different light.... so much out there to conquer.....

 

[SoulTax]

Thanks for that, still wonder if it is possible for a large celestial object to knock a planet onto a new orbit....

i watched the old TV series From The Earth To The Moon last month, unbelievable what man has achieved in such a short period. Since then every time I stand staring at the moon, I look at it in a different light.... so much out there to conquer.....

Not exactly, would be the answer to your first question. A celestial body that is large enough to "knock" a planet off of its orbit, is sure to obliterate the planet and itself in the process. But larger planets like Jupiter, can slingshot other planets about. As long as they don't touch, they would stay intact.


The most likely history of Mars, as far as self contained life is concerned. Is that is possibly had microbes, and even slightly more complex organisms. But nothing more than that before it lost the ability to sustain life. (That is following the hypothesis that life as we know it is a fairly common and inevitable occurrence in the universe, if given similar working conditions to Earth)

So if life is common, and Mars cooled before earth did, and had all of the necessary ingredients to propagate life. Then Mars likely had life of some very simple kind, long before we did. And it expired long before our planet's life forms even left the micro stage.


*Point to Ponder, the next time you get Drunxistential.
If life is a fairly common thing. And the main things it needs to be able to reach some kind of sentience like us humans, is to have a strong enough magnetosphere to protect the fragile lifeforms. Then imagine this. In the infinity of space, somewhere out there, there are possibly two planets, orbiting the same star. Both of which have advanced life. Both of whom, can actually definitely answer the question, "Are we alone in the universe". As they peer across a short gap in space, at one another.

 

[Splinter]

Both of whom, can actually definitely answer the question, "Are we alone in the universe". As they peer across a short gap in space, at one another.

And start making plans to invade the other first...

 

[Mortymoose]

*Point to Ponder, the next time you get Drunxistential.

If life is a fairly common thing. And the main things it needs to be able to reach some kind of sentience like us humans, is to have a strong enough magnetosphere to protect the fragile lifeforms. Then imagine this. In the infinity of space, somewhere out there, there are possibly two planets, orbiting the same star. Both of which have advanced life. Both of whom, can actually definitely answer the question, "Are we alone in the universe". As they peer across a short gap in space, at one another.

Me in such a state? :wtf: That be when I do my deepest thinking,

I have always believed that the universe is so big, there has to be life out there..... Not sure how all the religious institutions in the world are going to do when it is discovered, and it will be one day!

The building blocks out there on the other planets and meteoroids are similar to that on earth, if not the same, mostly looking like parts of our desert regions..... As humans we are destined to go out there and explore, perhaps not in our current lifetime, but definitely in the future........ it's gonna be an exciting time.