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pbj:
Well, I'll hand it to NASA. They've been recycling announcements for years, but this "Photographic Evidence of Water on Mars!!!" stuff may take the record.

Here's a photo from 1998 showing the same wet streaks in the upper left:

It was released in 2000. Primary source may be found here:

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/SP233806.html

Oh, but I'm afraid it gets much, much worse. This was already published 15 years ago in Science:

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/288/5475/2330.full

So, go see The Martian, support increased funding for NASA, and entertain delusions about manned space travel to outer space!

SavannahLion:
Is Mars One actually a NASA project? Just checked out their site and it reads more like a Kickstarter....

Slippyblade:
No, Mars One is a private thing. NASA will have nothing to do with a manned mission unless there is a return built into it. Mars One is a one way thing.

Howard_Casto:
All I can say is we better start funding NASA again. Even if you are a miserable, soul-less person who doesn't get excited about space exploration, it is fact that 98.99% of the technology we have today is a direct result of the space race. Since we stopped going to space, for the most part anyway, we stopped having ground-breaking ideas. Computers are faster, existing technology has improved and this improved tech has been applied in new ways, but we don't really have anything new.

Give men an impossible task and a butt-load of funding to work on the task and not only will they complete the task, but discover hundreds if not thousands of things, both as applied technology and theoretical concepts along the way. Don't give them such a goal and we get the iPhone 9.... exactly the same as the iPhone 8, only now with "special pictures", which are in reality just video clips.

We need space... we need people to get excited about space... the reason our world is in such a sorry state is because we no longer explore space.

Water on Mars is a big deal. They've announced it in the past but it was inconclusive. Now they have a rover on the ground exploring dried up lake beds and are arguing over the option to send the rover to the flowing water to test it. The only thing holding them back is the fact that the rover may be contaminated with earth bacteria and spores.

Locke141:
Sing it brother Buzz.

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