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Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars
jki writes "So, finally: Through the initial mapping of the South polar cap on 18 January, OMEGA, the combined camera and infrared spectrometer, has already revealed the presence of water ice and carbon dioxide ice. This information was confirmed by the PFS, a new high-resolution spectrometer of unprecedented accuracy. The first PFS data also show that the carbon oxide distribution is different in the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars. The MaRS instrument, a sophisticated radio transmitter and receiver, emitted a first signal successfully on 21 January that was received on Earth through a 70- metre antenna in Australia after it was reflected and scattered from the surface of Mars. This new measurement technique allows the detection of the chemical composition of the Mars atmosphere, ionosphere and surface." On another note, NASA has gotten some sort of signal from Spirit, but it's still not fully functional.
Considering that NASA already has color maps of all the water, this was non-news.
http://grs8.lpl.arizona.edu/latestresults.jsp
This site Sell pieces of land on mars! Now available: ocean view, swimming pools, etc... Hell, I want myself a part of the ocean! 200 years from now, there will be boats trafficking The Ziggamonean Ocean... Wikkid!
Here's what cracks me up. Scientists say there was probably a flood some long time ago on Mars...And their evidence is a tiny bit of frozen water??! Well, isn't it ironic that they believe that there could have been a massive flood on a planet where water barely exists now? And yet scientists say that a worldwide flood on the Earth is impossible, when really it is much more likey because of the amount of water that inhabits the Earth?