OT: NASA Puts Rover on Mars

[mattola]

NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

 

[KennyBanyeah]

NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

That's incredible.

Thanks for that Matt.

 

[puckhead]

sweet pic. that's a rep! oh, wait.
can I report the post instead?

 

[Darkstone42]

NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

Let's finish that warp drive and send a rover there!

 

[SLY]

NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

That is so fucking awesome.

 

[SLY]

Pretty awesome photos here.

Top 100 Images | ESA/Hubble

edit: not related to Curiosity, just Space, so yeah...

 

[dare2be]

NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

Can you imagine being on that planet witnessing a solar-solar eclipse?

 

[Nasty_Magician]

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Pretty crazy to think there was once water on Mars.

 

[SLY]

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Pretty crazy to think there was once water on Mars.

What if that's where we initially came from?

 

[Darkstone42]

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Pretty crazy to think there was once water on Mars.

There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

Do Eloco, Ritari and 46+2 know about this?

 

[Nasty_Magician]

There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

Should have specified, flowing water. Still, this is all fascinating. Can't wait for the next Mars landing so we can get a glimpse into what's under the surface.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

 

[dare2be]

There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

It evaporated into the atmosphere and then precipitated as snow/ice to the poles. Once in a permanent solid state, it had nowhere to go. The sun's energy level on Mars probably isn't strong enough to melt/evaporate the polar ice into a liquid/gaseous state. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Darkstone42]

It evaporated into the atmosphere and then precipitated as snow/ice to the poles. Once in a permanent solid state, it had nowhere to go. The sun's energy level on Mars probably isn't strong enough to melt/evaporate the polar ice into a liquid/gaseous state. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I figured it was either that or some flow issue, but the latter seemed to require too much coincidence. Perhaps we should induce global warming on Mars.

 

[robV703]

I figured it was either that or some flow issue, but the latter seemed to require too much coincidence. Perhaps we should induce global warming on Mars.

Terraforming Mars is a real possibility.

Terraforming of Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Nasty_Magician]

The Daily Feed with Sara Underwood 10.02.12 ? G4tv.com

Skip to about the 1 minute mark, kinda crazy.

 

[SLY]

So, this is the "space news" thread now right?

The end of the world is indeed coming people... Two black holes in star cluster surprise scientists | COSMOS magazine

 

[elocomotive]

There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

Frozen on Mars? Uh... it's a desert. Deserts are hot. And people think this guy knows stuff about science.

So, on this Tatoon planet, did we find any Ewoks or anything?

 

[elocomotive]

Do Eloco, Ritari and 46+2 know about this?

Yeah. Leonsis is rich. He's big into using "Mars' water" to fill the rink.