NASA just announced they found liquid water on Mars! Before they found strong evidence of organic compounds and now they just found liquid water. This is as close to discovering life as we can get without actually discovering it! One step closer! This has to be one of the most exciting discoveries in space exploration in years. Great work NASA!
Edit: This also makes the possibility of a Mars colony a lot easier! One step closer from expanding from 1 planet to 2!
Edit: NASA believe the water is probably very salty. That's most likely the only way liquid water could exist.
[spoiler]That means we can actually say the forums are salty like the water on Mars!!![/spoiler]
Edit: I'm reading news about it as its coming out. Some scientists are think that terraforming Mars could be easier and faster if we have a source of liquid water! THIS IS HUGE!
Edit: More than 1100 comments! Very cool!
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[b][u]TL;DR[/u][/b]: NASA made a huge discovery by finding proof of liquid water on Mars which is a perfect environment for life.
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I believe it may have been Europa, or possibly a satellite observed in the Gleaus system, but there was liquid water observed elsewhere in otherwise freezing temperatures that was sustained through the satellite's host exerting fluctuating gravitational pressures that forced water up in geysers that shot several miles out from the poles, and what's more: they found traces of amino acids within the water For clarification, amino acids are the basic components that make up DNA. This means carbon based life like ourselves has a chance of developing given the proper conditions