[headdie]

As the title says http://uk.news.yahoo.com/images-may-show-flowing-water-mars-224151621.html

An interesting development, how would it affect possible attempts to make the planet more habitable should it be attempted?

[JCDNWarrior]

Well I once saw a documentary talking about Mars once being like Earth, doesnt seem impossible. The very least, having water on Mars makes terraforming a lot easier. Just hope its not a very toxic form of water

[Enigmatic Entity]

Nature says: go there and don't come back! jk http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video--face-in-the-clouds-caught-during-storm.html

[Mika]

Interesting, from several perspectives

I'll leave the scientific and technical discussion of discovering flowing water in Mars for later.

Timing of this announcement begs for another skeptical sort of question; is NASA facing budget cuts now, since the Shuttle program has ended?

[-Sara-]

It's an interesting find, but it's curious how NASA always makes interesting finds when possible budget cuts come looking around the corner. I always wonder if they delay some finds a little while for trumpcard measures.

[JCDNWarrior]

I don't mind NASA using trump cards in order to get more funding, it's the closest thing to a public project there is. There's several private and semi-secret space projects going on in the world with no plans to provide services to the public in the far future.

[Polpolion]

It's an interesting find, but it's curious how NASA always makes interesting finds when possible budget cuts come looking around the corner. I always wonder if they delay some finds a little while for trumpcard measures.

better this than have them receive funding cuts and not be able to afford the equipment that makes these discoveries possible.

[carbine7]

I'm normally the first to despise political posturing and the like, even if I do understand the reason for it. However, seeing as NASA barely gets paid beans as it is, and is one of the few government agencies that had the potential to provide massive benefits for the United States and the world down the road, I don't have a problem.

It should be interesting to see if one of these locations is being considered as a landing site or later destination of a future ground probe.