Ice Ice baby.

Well, there is is. There was indeed ice on Mars. Or so we think. Phoenix, the robot that NASA sent to Mars several weeks ago, found evidences of Ice in form of bright spots that are beleived to have been Ice in a gazeous form couple millions years ago.

Well, these bright spots are what you could call Marsian Ice, do you see the little bright spots? These are traces of Ice that passed directly from a solid to gazeous state. They are visible in the lower right portion of that weird square. They are visible in one frame but not in the next, the perfect excuse to beleive its ice.  NASA think that the finding of Ice is not particullarly extravagant considered that traces Ice is beleived to be found in abundance in the area that Phoenix is in. The lander still have two months to explore the surface of Mars and find more traces of prehistoric water.

~ by Tristan on July 1, 2008.