1st: They are going to explain how the rover takes those selfies, like the one at the top of the article.
Astronomy / Space NASA Is About to Announce a Massively Exciting Mars Discovery
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With a selfie stick
Few images are taken and overlaid in a way that it's not visible. It's how in many 3d videos you can't see camera's mounting system even if you look where it has to be. Take it with a grain of salt, just a personal interpretation of how it works.
With a selfie stick
No, in fact they actually sent two vehicles there - Curiosity and Paparazzi. Former is there to do science and the latter makes it look good doing it.
(You are right of course. They even explained it)
What?With a selfie stick
Sounds like you work for NASA's PR department. 'Images stitched together to hid a selfie stick'. Whatever. But if you're saying that the photo at the top of the article if faked, that that would bring me to my 2nd point: It's not really on the planet, like the supposed July 20th 1969 moon landing. It was all, just another great lie.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
They've discovered Organic molecules on Mars. Interesting, but not evidence of life.
Don't forget the seasonal Methane cycle!
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How can something be organic, but not evidence of life?
Organic molecule doesn't automatically mean life.
Organic molecule just generally means a molecule with a carbon string, not something "made by life"
But the existence of the organic molecules still means that the life either existed there, or at least that there is a possibility that life may evolve there. Organic molecules is how it starts and how it ends.
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Organic molecule doesn't automatically mean life.
Organic molecule just generally means a molecule with a carbon string, not something "made by life"
But the existence of the organic molecules still means that the life either existed there, or at least that there is a possibility that life may evolve there. Organic molecules is how it starts and how it ends.
So are you saying that while life might not be there today, it definitely existed in the past?
EDIT: I re-read your reply.
They found a Tesla recharging network?
From https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-c...-methane-emissions?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1 they found sources of thiophene, 2- and 3-methylthiophenes, methanethiol, and dimethylsulfide
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A Guardian article on the subject:
https://www.theguardian.com/science...over-finds-organic-matter-in-ancient-lake-bed
Nasa’s veteran Curiosity rover has found complex organic matter buried and preserved in ancient sediments that formed a vast lake bed on Mars more than 3bn years ago.
The discovery is the most compelling evidence yet that long before the planet became the parched world it is today, Martian lakes were a rich soup of carbon-based compounds that are necessary for life, at least as we know it.
Researchers cannot tell how the organic material formed and so leave open the crucial question: are the compounds remnants of past organisms; the product of chemical reactions with rocks; or were they brought to Mars in comets or other falling debris that slammed into the surface? All look the same in the tests performed.
(The article also addresses the seasonal methane announcement.)
I just cut and paste a bit, is all.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science...over-finds-organic-matter-in-ancient-lake-bed
Nasa’s veteran Curiosity rover has found complex organic matter buried and preserved in ancient sediments that formed a vast lake bed on Mars more than 3bn years ago.
The discovery is the most compelling evidence yet that long before the planet became the parched world it is today, Martian lakes were a rich soup of carbon-based compounds that are necessary for life, at least as we know it.
Researchers cannot tell how the organic material formed and so leave open the crucial question: are the compounds remnants of past organisms; the product of chemical reactions with rocks; or were they brought to Mars in comets or other falling debris that slammed into the surface? All look the same in the tests performed.
(The article also addresses the seasonal methane announcement.)
I just cut and paste a bit, is all.
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But enough to secure a nice budget for the next couple of decades.
Did we have selfie sticks, before 2011?
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Yes, the military secretly developed them in 1972.
Anyway, seriously now. Does anyone else think the relevant bodies are about to receive a surge in funding so we can send humans to Mars?
You may actually be closer to the truth than you've intended with that joke.
First selfie stick actually appeared in some Eastern-European sci-fi film somewhere in the 70's
I've read about it.
Edit: Found it! And it was 1969, even.
[video=youtube;BDnt5INJV5A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDnt5INJV5A[/video]
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I see Para Handy gave the guardian link (a good 'lay-persons' read) and so i should put the arstechnica one to complete the options for us lay-people
'Finally, scientists have found intriguing organic molecules on Mars':
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...e-found-intriguing-organic-molecules-on-mars/
Overall i can't say i'm not slightly disappointed, i had hoped it would be actual evidence of life (past or present), but having some building blocks for life is a step in the right direction, and maybe it will help push us more solidly in getting manned exploration of Mars on the go to speed up the science?
'Finally, scientists have found intriguing organic molecules on Mars':
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...e-found-intriguing-organic-molecules-on-mars/
Overall i can't say i'm not slightly disappointed, i had hoped it would be actual evidence of life (past or present), but having some building blocks for life is a step in the right direction, and maybe it will help push us more solidly in getting manned exploration of Mars on the go to speed up the science?