The announcement that water has been found on the Red Planet just happens to have emerged at the same time as the Matt Damon film,with Nasa branding all over it, is released. Spooky, or what?It could hardly have arrive at a more spookily appropriate time: just when film-fans and the media are getting excited about the entertaining current sci-fi movie The Martian,about a troubled Nasa mission to Mars, released this week in the UK and the US. Matt Damon’s lovely chops in his space-helmet are all over the airwaves and the billboards, and promoting a film with which Nasa has cooperated,with generous use of their branding. And now Nasa itself has chosen this moment to accumulate us all excited about some news about the red planet.
They’ve offered an respond to David Bowie’s distinguished question about whether there is life on Mars. Well … yes! Or rather … not exactly! But there is water. Water that could sustain life! Possibly! Nasa has now revealed that there is evidence of stain-marks on Mars’s canyons and crater-walls: water is trickling downhill before drying up in the valleys and plains. The water flows could lead Nasa or another country’s space agency to potential sites where life on Mars could be found.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com