When NASA’s climate “guesses” are wrong they rewrite history in an effort to make them right, so claims of life and active running water on Mars should be taken with a BIG grain of salt – literally.
Alfred McEwen, a senior member of the orbiter team and a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, agreed: “We had no direct detection of water; that was just our best guess as to what these were.”
Now, Crism has demonstrated that the RSLs are covered with salts.
In other words, they didn’t find any water on Mars. They found salt on Mars. If there is water there, why didn’t CRISM detect water?
Suppose for a minute that they did actually find brines which were so concentrated as to keep the water from freezing at -40C, and keep them from boiling away at 10 mb atmospheric pressure. Concentrated brines like that would not be conducive to life.
This doesn’t mean there was not nor could there be running water on Mars, just that the hype is a bit overdrawn, again.
