Thread: Solar System "Giant Shift" Approaching?

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Oh, and Mars' polar ice caps are made of carbon dioxide (dry ice).

Haha, I totally knew that. I was just being a dick to see if he really knew what he was talking about or if he was just cut-and-pasting stuff.

Mars' atmosphere is like 95% CO2, and I think that if there is any water on mars it's only very small amounts in the form of water vapor present in the atmosphere.

Anyways, what do you mean when you say that Venus is 'glowing in the dark'? Do you mean that it's emitting light, or that it is more reflective for some reason?

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Haha, I totally knew that. I was just being a dick to see if he really knew what he was talking about or if he was just cut-and-pasting stuff.

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Mars's ice caps are actually made from mixture of carbon dioxide and water ice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Hydrology
http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/icecaps.html

I also read something yesterday (conveniently enough), that was just discovered, about how Venus's atmosphere reacts to solar winds. It highlights what Jeff was saying about Venus "glowing in the dark." It's actually a very interesting article.

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMS9773R8F_index_0.html

Thank you, god damnit...some people need to bring their "I know everything" ego's down from the clouds.

Originally Posted by Jeff777

Thank you, god damnit...some people need to bring their "I know everything" ego's down from the clouds.

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Mars' atmosphere is like 95% CO2, and I think that if there is any water on mars it's only very small amounts in the form of water vapor present in the atmosphere.

Easy there. My earth science teacher sucked, that's all. To be fair, the South pole IS almost entirely composed of dry ice. I'm glad O corrected me, I was under the impression that there were only signs of previous liquid water on Mars, and nothing more. I guess there's no reason for Mars not to have any water on it... and no reason for it not to have any sort of life, either! Keep our fingers crossed...

Well this explains why it is glowing now - http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/...-20071128.html

Here are some other interesting articles I found while browsing -
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007...Encounter.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007...Collision.html

What do you think is happening?

And to answer that, our solar system is changing. Day by day..

Look at Earth for example.

What the future holds? Who knows o.o Doesn't look too good though...