Comments on: Water ice glaciers spotted on Mars

NASA scientists find what they believe are huge water ice glaciers sitting just beneath the Martian surface.

[philryan]

Wow! So a Martian colony isn't totally out of the question. Roll on Blue Mars!

[jenguevin]

I don't know that we're quite ready to colonize, but the same scientist I quoted in the article did say that, more than just being interesting from an academic perspective, these glaciers are big news because they are a possible source of water for future Mars exploration projects.

[simplelifer]

This is really an exciting news!
Two planets in one solar system with one possible had, and the other has had, life (or lives) before... So, does this mean life, as we know it that supported by water, is more abundant in the universe than what was originally thought of?
This is a good news!

[jenguevin]

I didn't talk about this aspect in my story, but you can bet NASA will dig up some of these glaciers in the future to find out if there is any evidence of life at some time in Mars' history.

Very exciting stuff.

[jessiethe3rd]

TERRAFORMING TIME! Let's colonize that sucker!

[dmh1976]

Has anyone seen Total Recall ????? ;-)

[Beatnyama]

Heyyy, wait people. Wait one moment!!

IS THAT WATER DRINKABLE?

Just my .02

[knowles2]

Any water it drinkable with the right purification process. Unless it radioactive. But hopefully a mission will be arrange to go to these glaciers and take samples certainly before any man mission and analyze it to come up with ways to make the water drinkable.

[freemarket--2008]

In any case, you could use solar concentrators to melt the ice, solar cells to split the water into O2 and H which can run fuel cells for power at night. The final product should be pure water for life support.

[Lennyraven]

People, you just don't get it, do you? There is no air to breathe there. There is no gravity. Both of these things can't be shipped there, in needed amounts, unless we find a whole new way of transportation.
How about solving our debt here on earth and feed our hungry before we venture out to mess up another world.
What good does it do to go to a world that takes six months to get to if the travelers can't be healthy and return with something more constructive than that there is (maybe) water ice? It doesn't look like anything that I don't already have here.