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