And now filed under “I should have placed bets on this happening years ago…”
Nasa’s Phoenix lander has unearthed compelling evidence of ice on Mars, mission scientists believe.
Chunks of a bright material found in a trench dug by the craft have disappeared over four Martian days, suggesting they have vapourised.
[From BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars probe makes 'ice discovery']
Phoenix, using it’s scraper shovel type thing, uncovered some white stuff on the ground. 4 days later, parts of it had gone, and since salt and cocaine doesn’t just disappear (unless some random famous person known for drug abuse happened to be on Mars at the time…) it has to be water.
They found the bits in the Dodo-Goldilocks trench (Who names these important things?!) and some more similar features at Snow White 2 (Seriously, who does it!?), which makes me wonder how long it will be until the Google Copernicus Center will be fully operational on the surface instead of on the moon where it was originally planned…
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