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Cool Stuff Daily

Wed. 01/26 - Dun, Dun, Duuuuun!

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Is there liquid water under Mars ice cap or isn’t there? Recent studies have claimed both. And what about an underground ocean on Saturn’s death star moon? Here’s all of your space water updates. Plus, the origins of the melodramatic “dun dun duuuun” sound. And, and old SpaceX rocket stage is on track to slam into the moon this March. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: So is there liquid water under the Martian ice cap or not? (Bad Astronomy, Syfy Wire) Saturn's moon Mimas may have a liquid water ocean under its surface (Bad Astronomy, Syfy Wire) Saturn's 'Death Star' moon might be hiding an underground ocean (The Verge) Dun, Dun Duuun! Where did pop culture's most dramatic sound come from? (The Guardian) Desperate Desmond (Library of Congress) The Devil's Tritone: The History of a Most Sinister Chord (Fender) A SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Slam Into the Moon (Gizmodo) After 7 years, a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage is on course to hit the Moon (Ars Technica) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.1

Is there liquid water under Mars's ice cap or isn't there?

0:48.0

Recent studies have claimed both.

0:50.7

And what about an underground ocean on Saturn's Death Star Moon? Here are all of your

0:56.6

space water updates. Plus, the origins of the melodramatic, dun dun, dun, sound, and an old SpaceX rocket

1:07.6

stage is on track to slam into the moon this March.

1:11.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:17.1

Maybe you've seen some headlines this past week about liquid water being discovered under the South Polar Cap of Mars.

1:25.3

Or maybe you've seen headlines saying that there is not water there. Or maybe

1:30.8

even what some researchers thought was water, but was actually volcanic rock. What is going on? Is there

1:37.2

liquid water under the Martian ice cap or not? Luckily, Phil Plate over at Bad Astronomy is here to

1:44.0

clear things up. So basically the

1:46.4

Is There Isn't There about liquid water in this particular location on Mars has been going back and

1:52.3

forth since at least 2018. That's when a team of planetary scientists using ground penetrating

1:59.1

radar on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft found evidence for what they called a whole lake of liquid water beneath the South Pole ice cap on Mars.

2:11.6

And earlier this week, some folks from that same team reaffirmed their findings, adding that briny water could explain some of the

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