Signs of small runlets of water

Reflection: #047

Not only the rains that move mountains or the tsunamis that flood the coasts of several countries are evidence of water on a planet.

Small traces of moisture or drizzles of a few millimeters per square meter are samples of this vital liquid. Even more so if such evidence of liquid water is found on the surface of Mars. In many cases, a detective does not see a suspect but sees or finds suspicious clues and can connect them to the suspect. Therefore, all scientists work on searching for traces of past life or cultures here on Earth.

That's how criminologists work to solve crimes.

The search for clues is the hobby of thousands, if not millions of people. Sometimes it takes years, traveling the world to collect all the pieces of a puzzle, and sometimes the only clue is stepped on without knowing it was the one or the only one.  On Mars, we private researchers are doing the same on a smaller scale than NASA with its technological capacity. The scientists at NASA and other institutions do not search but collect information, which in turn is cataloged later. There is nothing unusual for the scientist.

Something is considered proven when a chemical or physical process always produces the same result under the same working conditions. Such observations, even if they produce unexpected results, are recognized.  I believe scientists are as curious as any other human being; only the resulting information from the research eludes their responsibility. That's where politics and economics come into play. Information can or cannot be disclosed to the public.

Everything is under the protection of patents, intellectual rights, etc.  We—and especially myself, as I have said often—seek the beautiful things in creation.

During this search, many fascinating but also strange things can be observed.

This is even more true when the search is done in unusual places like the surface of Mars.

And on the way, you can see many beautiful things, but on the other side, you can also see strange things.

If I show a photo, I shouldn't give an explanation if I can't give an adequate one.

Of course, I won't have an explanation for all those things that are beyond human knowledge; I don't seek vehemently for a description.

No. I just show it and make it available to the community.  This time, I believe I can give you an idea of my analysis with the images in this report.

In the three images (the first repeated with a marking arrow), there is a gentle movement of small pebbles and sand in a small water channel that has formed, taking some small pebbles with it and depositing them a little further down on the slabs of these rocks.  

The displacement was very gentle. Only a few millimeters of rain, enough to carry the sand twenty centimeters farther. Nothing more. But I'm talking about Mars. That's where the image comes from. Wind does not displace sand in a small channel. Only water leaves these traces. These details are beautiful, and the evidence of liquid water on Mars at this moment. There is no mention of millions of years here. This erosion occurred yesterday, three weeks ago, or, if it's a lot, a year ago. But no more. It may have been a drizzle this morning.

It's as simple as that. Liquid water is currently available on Mars. It doesn't matter if it evaporates or disappears into the rocks and depths. The water cycle—rain, streams, possibly elephants drinking and quenching their thirst, and the water that freezes and evaporates and accumulates in clouds—is working on Mars right now. About the elephant, we can talk. But it's just an example; we can think of something smaller.

But where there is water, there is life.  

The fact that there is water on Mars has been confirmed a thousand times. It exists in the form of vapor, clouds, snow, and ice.

I explained it once. Nothing could be easier than thawing and melting the water with a little sodium chloride. With salt! You, an animal, or a plant melt the ice with it and absorb the moisture. The salt is then excreted. I don't think it's difficult for evolution to invent such a metabolism.

Our fish deprive the water of oxygen and breathe calmly.

I won't start with more examples now, but life is vital by nature, and the transformation of frozen water ice into usable water is the simplest thing that exists.

 Here, you can see a small displacement of earth and stones that have moved only a few centimeters down the earth wall and been left there again. The water was not enough to carry them farther.  

It is not that we don't already have images of liquid water on Mars and immensely large waterfalls—if they are frozen—but I wanted to show you small and very valuable proofs.  

Greetings, Don Josef Bauer  

Source: NASA: Spirit Panoramic Camera PIA11753
1.Link http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11753
2.Link http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA11753.jpg
Full-Res JPEG:PIA11753.jpg (11.67 MB)