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NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended

Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.

"We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."


All-freaking-RIGHT!!!!

Date: 31 Jul 2008 23:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said.

Date: 1 Aug 2008 01:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com
... and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

(Seriously, great news. Thanks for the post.)

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