This week, the Mar Rover had a wheel lock up. In the process the wheel slid along the ground in a scraping manner. What it turned up appears to be the best evidence yet of the former existence of water on our red neighbor.
I always appreciate new research, but I find myself continually fascinated when apparent strokes of luck lead to exciting new discoveries. Incidentally, Silica is rather expensive here on Earth. Maybe we could begin trucking it in from Mars and lower the cost, which is the largest single barrier to a worldwide move towards solar energy.
As an after-thought: Isn’t it amazing that we can talk about this, skipping right over the amazing achievements of the Mars Rovers. I mean, the regular pictures of Mars and the x-ray spectrometry occurring millions of miles away from any human is pretty profound!
Labels: Research, Science Literacy