Liquid water on Mars. Now

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Liquid water on Mars. Now. Flowing, as flowing streams in the Sierra de Guadarrama or streams in the Pyrenees, or at least that it flows in our imaginary, the same in which the Martians are green, They have antennas and hands with three fingers and suction cups to the end.

There is water on Mars and when that man, Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science, he announced it in a video that NASA posted on Twitter he was nervous, as happy and shy at the same time, knowing that he was revealing a big secret, expected, a prodigious spell, the password that allows us to enter Ali Baba's cave. That gentleman so nice, so scientific and magical at the same time, with his beard and his khaki shirt, As a child he looked at the stars and wondered, sometimes in the solitude of his bed with a little fear, other times by the hand of a girl on a beach with the sea in the background, what will be there so far? where does the afterlife begin?

the news is for me, however, spectacular. It is like a wedding of the Capulets and the Montescos

When they broke the news, I was working at the agency and there has been a whole tumult of comings and goings, conflicting opinions, Martians and non-Martians facing each other, because we didn't know whether to give an alert or a flash. A flash is the highest level of importance, urgency, impact, unpredictability, strength of a news, two or three come out a year, “elect pope”, Fidel dies, an alert announces something important, but not so much. Some of us wanted flash, red and blue flags, open champagne bottles, but the law of Washington has been imposed and they have decided that it alerts, so Marte and Jim have gone through the thread at the level of Obama in the UN General Assembly and the new Sustainable Development Goals. the news is for me, however, spectacular. It is like a wedding of the Capulets and the Montescos, Science and ... extraterrestrial life. It's total history.

The discoverer

NASA says that this evidence has been deduced thanks to data from a certain Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, an artificial satellite, and not Curiosity, in whom we had turned all our hopes. It has given me as a pity. Not because of Curiosity's self-confidence, who I adore and who I consider to be the traveler who has gone the farthest in all, with that equipment on board and his puny little arm with which he takes selfies that break my heart with so much loneliness. I feel sorry for those who forget him, by those, in this mess of liquid water and potential bacteria and germs, they have cold hearts to judge him. They criticize him for having been able to "carry microbes" to the sacred Mars that now has water and that before, since I didn't have, well you could be, Curiosity, snooping around with your clumsy wheels and your puny little arm.

He is the traveler who has gone the farthest in all, with that equipment on board and his puny little arm with which he takes selfies that break my heart with so much loneliness

looks ugly but ok, perhaps this is not the right forum to shout Curiosity's praises to the winds, the first super rover explorer and who gives the traveling touch to this article today. Because this really is a trip, go to mars, collect samples, analyze them, go to the red planet where it is likely that there was life, that there is right now. Experts have said that the water is salty, which hinders the development of living beings, but they have also said that the first humans are likely to arrive on Mars in 2030, what is inside 15 years. Nothing is missing for us to fill ourselves with airs from other parts, of strange atmospheres, of selfies with Curiosity and that, seeing our planet from another, we want to go back home.

 

 

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