Water Found on Mars
I just saw this on the Mars Phoenix Lander’s Twitter page:
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!
Followed by:
Whoohoo! Was keeping my eye on some chunks of bright stuff & they disappeared! Sublimated! So it can’t be salt, it’s ice:
The Mars Lander was having a little dig when it discovered some ‘dice sized’ bright substance, over the few days that followed the the substance appeared to vaporise indicatiting that it couldn’t be salt.
I don’t know what I am more excited about, Water on Mars or that Nasa Scientists shout Woot!
Toot!
Doesn’t Mars already have huge polar icecaps?
[...] much for Mars being a dead planet, what with ice, avalanches, rain, moving sand dunes and weather systems, it seems quite [...]