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been youtubing mars lately, fascinating stuff

actually i prefer the new picture from pluto
released today too

With Science and science fiction being close related, Let's talk about Iapetus, or occasionally Japetus, is the third largest satellite of Saturn, eleventh largest in the Solar System, and the largest body in the Solar System known to not be hydrostatic equilibrium.

The orbit of Japetus around Saturn is somewhat unusual - all but one of Saturn's other moons orbits at the same level as the ring system, ie "in the same plane" -Japetus orbits at an angle inclined to the ring system of about 15 degrees. Japetus is not from, nor did it originate with Saturn or the rest of the moon but joined the system at a later time.

By contrast, Phoebe is an irregular satellite of Saturn with a mean diameter of 213 km. It is thought to be a captured dwarf body from the Kuiper belt that was battered out of hydrostatic equilibrium by repeated impacts. Its orbit is inclined at about 5 degrees in the opposite direction.

Iapetus is rumoured to be constructed because of it baffling, highly geometrical, precisely equatorial - 60,000 high. 1200 km long "Iapetus Wall". Without doubt the most astonishing Iapetus discover is while all Moons over 250 km diameter are spherical - Japetus is highly geometrical, apparently an eroded truncated icosahedron.

It was the theory behind Arthur C Clarke's 2001: a Space Odyssey where an Alien monolith was discovered on its surface which was confirmed when the Voyager space probe discovered that there was indeed a black region within the moon's brighter hemisphere. It is also said to be the inspiration for Star Wars - Death Star.



This post was edited by card_sultan on Sep 29 2015 03:30pm

From a scientific standpoint I don't get the hype. So there is strong evidence for heavily salinated liquid water on the surface of Mars.

If you apply scientific theory of origins of life on earth under near perfect conditions this would mean in about 1 billion years you might get a bacteria on Mars if conditions there improve.

Of course there could be some other life form there based on something we don't understand but that is beside the point

No big deal here, move along 😜

Well they have already found fossilized bacteria - so just based on that there might actually be some sort of Alien bacteria there that's still alive, highly unlikely - but still possible. It's not like they're going to be sending someone to Mars next month, I still think that's a long way away - Nasa is just making their plea to keep funding them for the next 20 years.

wow i really thought this thread would have more posts lol

There were a bunch of threads on jsp, seemed like everyone liked the news.

You talking about that meteorite right? but yeah they keep finding life in most fucked up places on earth where it shouldn't even exist. If mars ever had life there still should be some bacteria alive imo

apparently curiosity is not clean enough to go anywhere near water on mars, all open space, radiation and uv lights is still not enough to kill off all earth bacteria that it maybe carrying

This post was edited by -=vasya=- on Oct 1 2015 02:51am

It is now accepted by the scientific community that it was NOT fossilized bacteria.

Actually, new science has revealed ways to form carbonates on Earth without interference from biological organisms.

This post was edited by iBruno on Oct 1 2015 09:30am