{"id":182404,"date":"2015-10-01T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/01\/nestle-launches-mission-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T23:27:00","slug":"nestle-launches-mission-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/01\/nestle-launches-mission-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestle Launches Mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/E4jeTmM.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/E4jeTmM.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>No, Nestle is not actually flying to Mars.  That&#8217;s just a snarky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/protesters-drought-shaming-nestle-out-of-california-2015-5\">reference to Nestle&#8217;s sucking water out of California in orderto bottle it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When juxtaposed with some of Nestle&#8217;s earlier behavior, the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/awin.aviationweek.com\/ArticlesStory.aspx?id=e77a91bf-28fb-487e-9340-4903807eb14e\">NASA&#8217;s discovery that there are current water flows on Mars<\/a>, it is an obvious bit of humor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Spectroscopic data from NASA<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2019s 10-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have confirmed years of scientific suspicion that periodic dark streaks appearing on Martian slopes are the result of liquid water flowing on the planet\u2019s surface.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The dark features, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), have been observed for years by the orbiter\u2019s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) and have appeared on dozens of sites at Mars. This imagery was later correlated with mineral mapping by another instrument, the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which determined that the dark streaks are hydrated minerals \u2014 i.e., thin patches of damp soil. The salt lowers the freezing point of the water, allowing it to persist longer in Mars\u2019 thin, cold atmosphere.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cOur quest on Mars has been to \u2018follow the water,\u2019 in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we\u2019ve long suspected,\u201d said John Grunsfeld, NASA\u2019s associate administrator for science and a former space shuttle astronaut, during a Sept. 28 press conference. \u201cMars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past. Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is actually rather significant.<\/p>\n<p>Where there is water, on Earth at least, there is life.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> for the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Nestle is not actually flying to Mars. That&#8217;s just a snarky reference to Nestle&#8217;s sucking water out of California in orderto bottle it. When juxtaposed with some of Nestle&#8217;s earlier behavior, the news that NASA&#8217;s discovery that there are current water flows on Mars, it is an obvious bit of humor: Spectroscopic data from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1069,1050,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-science","category-snark","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}