Life on Mars may have existed 3.6 billion years ago. I don’t want to think of the life of Mars today. I am now thinking of the lake. NASA’s curiosity rover discovered the evidence of fresh water lake on Mars.
I celebrated the discovery of the evidence of lake today by reading Yeats.
‘I will arise and go now, and go to Mars,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.’
Innisfree is not a lot like Mars though.
I know. : ) But we can imagine a lot of things that may not exist.
We sure can. Nicely surreal and curious connection here with Yeat’s poetry and Gusev crater – at one stage crater lake.
Thanks Taslima Nasreen, great fusion of art and science and wonder and knowledge. I’m officially impressed! 🙂
Incidentally, y’all probably know this already but China just landed Jade Rabbit (YuTu) on our Moon :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25384057
Plus had another spacecraft fly past and image Near-Earth Asteroid Toutatis :
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/12/13/3909851.htm
although that was earlier imaged by RADAR as well :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toutatis-4179