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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	"Divining" water on Mars 05/10/2005 9:10 AM
	Journal man writes: Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has successfully deployed the first of three radar booms designed to search for underground water. When all three booms are deployed they will pulse radar waves into the Martian soil. Based on differences in the time of reflection, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to discern underground water from rock. News update: 05/10/05 Forty-Sixer 4822 writes: The first boom antenna did not deploy correctly. __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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Steve Melito Guru Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2969 Good Answers: 33	#1 Canals 05/06/2005 2:35 PM
	It would be ironic if water is discovered on Mars. Didn't old-time observers claim to see "canals" on the planet's surface?
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#2 In reply to #1 Re:Canals 05/10/2005 9:50 AM
	They did and were ridiculed in modern times as being crackpots. I'm hoping for a little vindication for them. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	#3 In reply to #2 Re:Canals 05/11/2005 9:55 AM
	Didn't John Carter find the canals? __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#4 In reply to #3 Re:Canals 05/11/2005 10:17 AM
	Funny; actually it was Schiaparelli. The funny thing was that the "canals" were a mistranslation. "Interest in mars increased considerably in 1867 when the italian astronomer Schiaparelli discovered "canali" (which means lines) on mars. This was miss-translated as "canals", which were hypothesised to have been artificial, and resulted in a large number of science fiction stories about martians. The most well know of these was "the war of the worlds" by Herbert George Wells." __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#5 Boom 1 05/11/2005 12:53 PM
	Boom 1 has been successfully deployed. The problem was the Kevlar froze and they needed to warm it up by pointing it at the Sun. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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