Water on Mars Discovered by Phoenix Mission?
This should be interesting:
In a discovery that could qualify as one of the most important in the history of space exploration, NASA’s Phoenix Mission may have confirmed the presence of water ice on the planet, Popular Mechanics has learned. The scheduling of a press conference for Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern by NASA and the University of Arizona has raised hopes in the space community that scientists will announce the breakthrough. When pressed for details, a spokesperson for the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory refused to elaborate beyond saying that the Phoenix team would unveil new findings from the ongoing robotic mission to Mars. If the rumor holds true, it would be the first direct confirmation of water ice beyond Earth.
You should be able to watch that press conference at 2:00 PM EST on NASA TV.
via Instapundit.
August 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm
They’ve assumed that for a while, but it’s nice that we got a “taste” of it as they say (although this “taste” would in reality kill us).
It’s nice to know that space exploration takes precedence over the mortgage crisis.