appears to flow and then it just disappears, goes away. yeah, you know i think the way i would say that actually, jon is that the mechanism for how the water seems to get out from beneath the martian surface and comes out on to the slopes is not very well-understood. however we do know there is tremendous amount of water frozen into the martian soil. so radar studies have showed there is a tremendous amount of water that s frozen beneath the surface. we ve also had landers on the surface that have been able to scrape the soil and see there is permafrost there. so if we can understand better what the mechanism is, it might have something to do with the fact that it is now martian summer in the northern hemisphere, that might help us figure out how this water can make its way out. jon: still no little green men discovered on the red planet. dr. derek pitts. thank you, jon. no little green men yet but
lander is, it has been found that 2% of that sample by volume is water, and the expectation is that it would be like this all across the planet. so that s the big surprise. jon: they should have sent curiosity up there with a divining rod, and maybe they could find some serious amounts of water underground. i suppose that s possible. i mean, i m jesting here, but i suppose it s possible that there is, you know, there are serious deposits of subsurface water. well, the real expectation, jon, or the real knowledge, i should say, is that there is plenty of water frozen into the martian soil as subsurface water. we can think of this in terms of the earth analogy of perma frost in the bow lahr regions of our polar regions of our planet. this is the same situation for mars. it has been identified by radar studies of the planet from orbit that if you look down at the northern hemisphere of mars, there is an enormous amount of water frozen into the surface. the question is has that water
supposed to launch in 2022. their mission is to build the first human settlement on martian soil. the biggest hitch? once they blast off from earth, there is no turning back. we have the cofounder and ceo of mars one. he joins us now on the telephone. so the idea is these four earth links launch to marchs but they don t come back, is that right? that s right. you have all the technology here on earth to send humans to mars, to land them safely, to support their life there. to keep them alive, but there is simply not the technology to let humans take off from mars and get them back to earth. the technical ability is not there. jon: they land an mars. they spend the rest of their life in the space colony. it sounds pretty frightening frankly. actually we keep sending more people every two years. there will be a growing
as it maneuvers across the landscape. the rover landed in 2004 for a mission that was supposed to last three months. another rover will land next month on a mission to search the martian soil for signs of microscopic life. i believe i m i ve got business at hand way more than what it does. i will say that. shannon: that is fred lumpy, the north carolina father who is fighting a hospital over guardianship of his son. we told you earlier that freddie lumpy jr. has been hospitalized with a severe brain injury for more than a year. he was in a car accident and he was dropped from medicaid when he turned 18. the cost of his care is now approaching $4 million. the hospital said his father hasn t done the right paperwork to get his son s medicaid coverage reinstated. that s why it wants to step in or have an outside guardian appointed. local tv stations are reporting that the dad has secured medicaid for his son. we do not have independent confirmation of that for now.
collect the martian soil and rock and the national academy of sciences called that the number one solar system priority but as you say, now they re talking about moving on to jupiter, nasa wants to visit their moon, uropa, is that a worthwhile project? it is. we have suspicions that not only mars might be an area for life but the subsurface ocean of uropa and jupiter could harbor life. what the scientists have to avoid getting into is whose science is better. i think the solution is to go to the congress behind me and grow the entire nasa budget, prioritize our leadership in the space field, and if we have a larger nasa budget, then we have the funds to do not only mars but outer planet exploration. it doesn t do anybody to be infighting about which scientific priority is better. nasa is in a bind, just because their budget is flat or declining and yet the scientific community is want to go hold them to the proms of the past year. matt matto oat patti ann: