I saw in the news that they found water in Mars. why is this so important/?
2007-03-16 16:22:23 · 14 answers · asked by Ytsu F 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Water is one of the components to be present in life formation. Microbes/ unicelular organism lives in water. Water in Mars will mean that the possibility of life in the present or the past was a reality. The other point to look at is that the finding of water will help scientist explained the life on earth.
2007-03-16 16:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by Chev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The obvious one. It means that when we (or I mean you) send people up there, they will have something to drink. Otherwise, they will crew will have to carry their own water, which would be a major hassle.
Also, no water would mean no chance of growing things there. Generally, life would be much much tougher, with all available water imported and recycled.
Also, as posters have pointed out. Water on Mars means that it is at least a little closer to Earth in its makeup, and thus possibly its history. So maybe there was life on Mars, at an earlier stage, and maybe some microbial life still exists. Personally, I doubt it. Life is very prolific when it gets going. There would be a lot of evidence of life had there been anything multicellular in the last few million years, exposed seams of coal, etc.
Good news is that there does seem to be water on Mars.And it's Evian.
2007-03-16 16:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Interesting answers.
Water is important largely because we're hoping to find evidence that life existed on Mars. There are a couple reasons why it's important we find life on other planets. First, we'd like to know it's possible for life to exist somewhere other than our own planet. Otherwise, this universe is going to be very lonely. This is the reason we care that water EVER existed on Mars.
Second, if we find that water STILL exists on Mars (outside of the poles), then we'll have water to use if we build a colony. Water isn't just for us to drink. We could also split it to get fuel and oxygen.
2007-03-16 17:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by KenLG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is very important to us because discovering water on mars is the key success into living on mars. Finding that water on mars is going to supply us with an advantage when we live on mars in 20-100years :D
2007-03-16 17:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
water on mars is important for our theory of evolution. Our theory is great, but it doesn't have a starting point, so many people have suggested that maybe it came from mars- it's pretty close- and then they recieve the nobel prize and can leave it to someone else to say how live got on mars.
2007-03-16 17:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Goldilocks phenomenon" is the necessity for conditions such as size or temperature to be "just right". The term derives from the story of Goldilocks, who preferred porridge which was "not too hot, and not too cold".
A widely used example of the effect is the Sun's habitable zone, which is likewise neither too hot, not too cold for life to exist, and where the Earth is to be found. So if you found water on mars it would also be the right conditions for life. And hence we could find if there was(is) life on Mars...
Hooray
2007-03-16 16:27:08 · answer #6 · answered by DeepBlue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when we have finished ruining this planet we are going to start on another. do u realise that a lot of places have water restrictions in place now. we are in level 4 soon to be 5.
To many people not enough tanks etc to catch free water from the sky. Go figure. We all need to change the things we do.
2007-03-16 16:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by Shaz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if there is water it means that Mars could have supported life once.
2007-03-16 16:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by Jcmtnez 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You seem somewhat perplexed in what you certainly have faith! "even the smallest amoeba style issues that we developed from" "did he build Mars as an afterthought??" So actual that would desire to intend that the two: a) Mars might desire to have exploded into being interior a similar massive bang and because there is water there that would desire to intend that extra existence will evolve from an amoeba that's almost absolute to be lurking around someplace or b) God might desire to have created existence interior a similar way that he outfitted mars So it is not a topic for me. i understand what i've got faith - do you?
2016-10-18 21:32:41 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
easy- people believe that the sun will blow up at some point, or that some space emergency could occur. you see, if we have an alternate planet to migrate to, we can use the deserted property on Earth the cut off greenhouse gasses, and we would also have a place to go if say a giant meteorite was coming to earth.
2007-03-16 16:27:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋