Re: Mars photo
Posted by Planko on Jan 07, 2004 at 12:13
(66.11.182.132)Re: Mars photo (Uncle Al)
>>If it has any biologically interesting water, then that water must be buried deep - sealed against evaporation, pressurized by depth, and warmed above freezing by internal planetary heat from original accretion and continuing radioactive decay. You'd want a seismic survey, then a kilometer or three of deep drilling, followed by sample retrieval and examination both for frank biota and their metabolic products. Bugs are a pain in the patootie in oil drilling.<<
Ahhh...so what? No fountaining possible from those deep pressurized wells?