Elemental Sulphur found on Mars

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Floyd Eye said:
Gettin' yer science stuff from Alanis Morrisette these days Justin Bailey ?

Not where AYNIRAR would get his. Just sayin'.
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I’ve posted her clips several times here. She was a communications specialist for nasa and is now an independent consultant
 
Justin Bailey said:
Cool! Gotta love when someone literally stumbles over a discovery.

https://www.livescience.com/space/m...sulfur-crystals-after-crushing-a-rock-on-mars



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Reminds me of these weird crystals I used to find out in the desert.
Turned out they were from lightning strikes and/or Israeli space lasers.
 
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Justin Bailey said:
A little perspective for everyone obsessed with politics right now
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It's gonna be hard to get me to actually click on a video. I can count videos posted here that I actually watched on no hands. So how about you give us a ( Brief ) run down of what this is and what it means ?
 
Floyd Eye said:
It's gonna be hard to get me to actually click on a video. I can count videos posted here that I actually watched on no hands. So how about you give us a ( Brief ) run down of what this is and what it means ?
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There is also an article, and the video is probably only a minute long.
But if you are interested, the mars rover accidentally drove over a rock, and when it turned around to see what it had hit, it noticed a rock broken apart into a bunch yellow pieces.
That is something they’ve never noticed before. The pieces were too small to grab, so they looked around for another one and noticed a whole bunch of similar looking rocks. They drilled into one for a sample and after analyzing it they found it to be “elemental Sulphur” which is basically pure Sulphur.

On earth, that only happens near volcanoes. However where they found all these rocks are not near any known volcanoes on Mars.
So the interesting part is how did so many of these rocks get so far away from their source? Or if it wasn’t from a volcano, what was their source as it would have to be a process not known to man.
 
Justin Bailey said:
There is also an article, and the video is probably only a minute long.
But if you are interested, the mars rover accidentally drove over a rock, and when it turned around to see what it had hit, it noticed a rock broken apart into a bunch yellow pieces.
That is something they’ve never noticed before. The pieces were too small to grab, so they looked around for another one and noticed a whole bunch of similar looking rocks. They drilled into one for a sample and after analyzing it they found it to be “elemental Sulphur” which is basically pure Sulphur.

On earth, that only happens near volcanoes. However where they found all these rocks are not near any known volcanoes on Mars.
So the interesting part is how did so many of these rocks get so far away from their source? Or if it wasn’t from a volcano, what was their source as it would have to be a process not known to man.
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That is interesting. What do you think about it ? Given the extreme temperatures on Mars is it possible underground heat sources or molten rock or whatever could be the source ?
 
They are always saying they are finding shit on mars. What they are really trying to find is funding and public support for their fantasy adventure novels.
 
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VonBonfire said:
They are always saying they are finding shit on mars. What they are really trying to find is funding and public support for their fantasy adventure novels.
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The mars mission is pretty fubared at the moment anyways. The plan to return samples to earth that can’t be tested by the equipment on Mars, keeps getting more and more convoluted and expensive, and therefore less likely to happen.

But for me at least, finding anything new on mars is pretty exciting. It’s a dead fucking planet. If you were new to earth you could travel 10 feet without discovering something new. Mars is still pretty much the same shit everywhere you go.
 
Justin Bailey said:
The mars mission is pretty fubared at the moment anyways. The plan to return samples to earth that can’t be tested by the equipment on Mars, keeps getting more and more convoluted and expensive, and therefore less likely to happen.

But for me at least, finding anything new on mars is pretty exciting. It’s a dead fucking planet. If you were new to earth you could travel 10 feet without discovering something new. Mars is still pretty much the same shit everywhere you go.
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Anything made up of enough rock is sure to have minerals somewhere on it. I don't see it as super exciting but I am not a science guy either. I think they release it so they can attract more funding. If that was gold the ship carrying the mining expedition would've already launched.
 
VonBonfire said:
Anything made up of enough rock is sure to have minerals somewhere on it. I don't see it as super exciting but I am not a science guy either. I think they release it so they can attract more funding. If that was gold the ship carrying the mining expedition would've already launched.
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Sulphur in this state is pretty rare, or at least has very specific way of forming, and as far as anyone knows is a clear indication of volcanic activity. Much of why people study other planets is I hopes to learn more about our own. At the heart of it, science is about proving yourself wrong. All of the years of scrutiny and testing is about proving yourself wrong. That’s why junk science gets thrown around when someone has an idea, and gathers data to support it. That’s garbage.

But back to your original statement, yes most of the universe is made up of the same stuff. So that’s why it is interesting that you can look at Venus, Earth and Mars, which are all vastly different from eachother; and and use that to learn about why Earth is the only one currently successful even though they l started out similar.
As far as anyone knows finding these rocks further shows that mars probably had volcanic activity at some point. Volcanic activity is understood to be one of the necessary factors for life forming in Earth.

That spring boards into what else happened or didn’t happen on earth that didn’t or did happen on mars. Same can be done with Venus.
 
Justin Bailey said:
Sulphur in this state is pretty rare, or at least has very specific way of forming, and as far as anyone knows is a clear indication of volcanic activity. Much of why people study other planets is I hopes to learn more about our own. At the heart of it, science is about proving yourself wrong. All of the years of scrutiny and testing is about proving yourself wrong. That’s why junk science gets thrown around when someone has an idea, and gathers data to support it. That’s garbage.

But back to your original statement, yes most of the universe is made up of the same stuff. So that’s why it is interesting that you can look at Venus, Earth and Mars, which are all vastly different from eachother; and and use that to learn about why Earth is the only one currently successful even though they l started out similar.
As far as anyone knows finding these rocks further shows that mars probably had volcanic activity at some point. Volcanic activity is understood to be one of the necessary factors for life forming in Earth.

That spring boards into what else happened or didn’t happen on earth that didn’t or did happen on mars. Same can be done with Venus.
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I somehow appreciate the speculative nature of primordial history more than I do the surety with which most of modern science speaks. Pre-history is fascinating which is why Genesis is one of my favorite books.
 
VonBonfire said:
I somehow appreciate the speculative nature of primordial history more than I do the surety with which most of modern science speaks. Pre-history is fascinating which is why Genesis is one of my favorite books.
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I like that science can be used further study our own planet. Logic would say “closer to the sun is hotter, further from the sun is colder”
But then we learn Venus is hotter than Mercury and its most likely because Venus has an atmosphere (almost pure co2 ahem) and it is hotter than the closest planet to the sun with no atmosphere.

Or the dark side is the moon, which again has no atmosphere, is as cold as Pluto which is mind numbingly further away from the sun than the moon. Atmosphere is important.
 
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