So you've entered the Paracast with your host, Gene Steinberg and David Beuling.

So Matt Tonys, I understand that snow has been seen on the dead seas of Barsoom. Is that correct? That is correct. Snow has been seen, and it's water ice too. So it's actually snow as in snow that you'd see here on Earth.

Now, we should explain what Barsoom is for those who are not acquainted with the writings of Edgar

Ice Burroughs going back to what, oh, at least 110 years ago or something like that.

Yeah, we're going back away now.

Sure.

The Barsoom in Edgar Ice Burroughs, John Carter going back away now. Sure. The Barsoom in Eggiery's, John Carter of Mars, pulp thrillers, was the native word for Mars.

That's the Martian word for Mars.

There are many others, but that's the one that's stuck, not from Burroughs, but Burroughs Barsoom is the one that is the one that kind of stuck in the popular imagination.

Now, he depicted Mars as a dying world, but of course, what we know now is that it's pretty well dead already.

Yeah, he depicted it as kind of in the Ray Bradbury traditional, and that point is romantic, a little more comic book.

But yeah, it was still couched in that H.G. Wells notion of a dying planet, you know,

about planet, you know, it's kind of dwindling and fading away.

Now, however, we learned a lot of things about Mars over the years, of course, that Mars couldn't have

life.

Maybe it has microbial life, but now it has snow, water-based snow, not snow like you'd find

on one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter or something like that.

Water-based snow, does that prove there's life there?

It doesn't prove there's life, but it establishes once again,

and this has been established so many times now,

that Mars has all of the chemical necessities for life,

has all the ingredients for life.

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