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Last year I wrote a column about the possibility of large quantities of water trapped below the Martian soil, and wouldn't you know it, those clever scientists working with the Mars Odyssey satellite have gone ahead and found just that. In a discovery that is sure to influence the future of Mars exploration, NASA announced the detection of vast amounts of water ice only a few meters below the surface of Mars.This discovery will unquestionably change our assumptions about the sort of land forms and geological features we see down on the surface, as well as modify our theories about how the Martian climate may have changed in the past. And it's certainly perked up the New Balance A20 Man's ears of hopeful astrobiologists (scientists who search for microbial life elsewhere in our solar system), as on Earth, subsurface ice is known to support entire ecosystems.But something that may come as a surprise is the technique NASA used to find the buried ice. As we all know, no human has yet set foot on Mars with rockhammer in hand, nor have we even sent a robotic lander to drill down a few feet into the Martian dirt (although such a mission may soon appear in NASA's plans). No indeed. The ice, even under several meters Montblanc Fountain Pen of bonedry, rusty soil, was detected by a satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above Mars. So why now? We've had satellites orbiting Mars and imaging its Abercrombie & Fitch Fahion Shirts surface for the last few decades, and we've Air Jordan CP3 never seen water before. What was different this time?The answer lies in the incredible power of modern remote sensing technology. It was impossible to detect the Martian ice with images alone. To be sure, some of the highresolution pictures of Mars returned by the Mars Global Surveyor were tantalizing. At the top of some high ridges and crater walls there seemed to be small gullies that looked an awful lot like meltwater runoff from underground ice. But they might also have been formed by wind erosion or shifting sand. Ambiguous results may be frustrating to scientists, but they're also a challenge. If regular satellite images can't confirm or deny the presence of water, then what sort of measurement would?In the case of the Mars Odyssey satellite, it was gamma rays. The Mars Odyssey has an instrument called a gamma ray spectrometer, which measures the energy of gamma rays coming from the surface of Mars. Gamma rays Air Jordan Olympia are the most energetic form of light known they're dangerous beasties, able to kill living cells on contact. In nature, gamma rays are only created during intense explosions (like the death of a star), or through radioactive decay. Neither of these processes would seem to have much do to with water. But with remote sensing, you have to think of ways to detect things from large distances, and often you can do that indirectly. Water doesn't emit gamma rays, but hydrogen does under some special circumstances, and hydrogen is an integral component of water.So how did scientists use gamma rays to detect the water? It goes something like this: everything in the universe gets bombarded regularly by cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are highenergy particles that shoot through space, and are produced by everything from supernova explosions to our very own Sun. From laboratory experiments, we know that each chemical has a distinct response to being hit by Birkenstock Clogs Women a cosmic ray, which is a powerful enough collision to dislodge neutrons from the nucleus of an atom.Related Topics Articles：
 
 
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