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Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars

Posted by timothy on from the first-let's-try-seattle dept.

H_Fisher writes "The BBC reports that the Mars Express spacecraft team is ready to deploy a radar antenna to search for traces of water and ice beneath the Martian surface. The deployment has been delayed for a year due to concerns that the unfurled antenna might damage the spaceship. Mission controllers are optimistic; perhaps the ESA will be the next to make an important discovery about the red planet?"

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  1. Did they try the store? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure Wal-Mars has some water at low low prices.

  2. But... by leapis · · Score: 5, Funny

    they already found water on mars!

    1. Re:But... by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Funny

      worst. product. placement. ever.

    2. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well it made me thirsy. And since when the hell is Mars an "Energy Bar," I have a roomate that eats those things all the time and he is the laziest sack of shit I've ever met.

    3. Re:But... by LurkerXXX · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is probably water at deeper levels in the martian soil. All you need is to dig a well to get at it. Digging the well might be tough, so I suggest looking for the beagle probe. It should have given you a good head start on the hole.

  3. Better find it soon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The ESA's dog is very thirsty.

  4. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It won the Noble Piece Prize, not the Nobel Peace Prize.

  5. Let's Bottle & Sell It! by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet we can charge twice as much as Evian gets!

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  6. Heh... by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 1, Funny
    FTA: "it is thought the greatest reservoir of retained water on the Red Planet could be found beneath the planet's surface."

    Well duh, like it is on earth: you have the surface of the ocean (where it meets the air), and most of the water is below that. Go figure (gravity and all).

  7. Re:Contamination by PornMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    You say two-may-tow, I say tah-mah-tow. You say contaminate, I say terraform. Let's call the whole thing off...

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  8. This could be... by notmyeye · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the most expensive divining rod ever built...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing

  9. Re:So... by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have bammed many times tonight, and yet still no water.
    See your doctor. Male impotence is treatable.
  10. Re:This'll be good. by qualico · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...until Europeans have "discovered" water ...

    Interesting way to put it since they were looking for land not too long ago.

  11. Re:Mars Express? by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real pain was getting it to Launch Pad 9-3/4.

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  12. Re:Watch where you point that thing by amliebsch · · Score: 3, Funny
    We could at least beam them cable TV or something to make up for it.

    If they were actually intelligent, they'd construe that as an act of war!

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