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NASA Announces Water Found On Mars

Posted by timothy on from the so-val-kilmer-can-breathe-easy dept.

s.bots writes "Straight from the horse's mouth, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has identified water in a soil sample. Hopefully this exciting news will boost interest in the space program and further exploration of the Martian surface." Clearly, this has long been suspected, but now Martian water's been (in the words of William Boynton, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer) "touched and tasted."

2 of 281 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Are we surprised? by 19Buck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    elements that make up water != water. an ice crystal here or there != water water vapour in any nonsubstantive amount != water. Yes I was talking about liquid. Did I really need to specify that? course I did, this is karmawhoresincaaaahhh slashdot after all.

  2. Re:Are we surprised? by 19Buck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    do I really need to explain this? Stop thinking like a scientist and think like a regular shlub. How many planets do we know of that have even a FRACTION of the water we have here on Earth? None? Exactly. Yes I know water is out there, yes I know there's tons of ice, ice vapor, blah blah blah. none of that means a THING to the purposes of life, if it's not liquid, relatively free of impurities and in a (or was in a) state similar to what we have here on earth.