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Created : 01 August 2008
 

Martian Water: Real + Confirmed!

NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html
TUCSON, Ariz. -- 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."

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Comments
Friday, 01 August 2008, 18:00
Jayenkai
 		woot! Water!!
Friday, 01 August 2008, 18:34
Agent
 		It's only a matter of time now before we see spam adverts for bottled martian water.
Friday, 01 August 2008, 19:19
steve_ancell
 		LOL... I was wondering when somebody would give a comment like that.

|edit| I wonder what brand name they will give it !. |edit|
Friday, 01 August 2008, 19:30
blanko1324
 		Tasted?! Tasted? By whom?
Friday, 01 August 2008, 20:41
HoboBen
 		The robot we sent there... he even has his own Twitter feed!
twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
Saturday, 02 August 2008, 04:10
spinal
 		I don't get it, doesn't mars have ice caps? surely that would be proof of water?
Saturday, 02 August 2008, 05:32
Jayenkai
 		Yeah, but the "ice" might not have been "H2o"-ish water ice..
Now, I guess they're quite happy that it might very well in all likely hood just possibly maybe be "H2o"-ish water ice!

yeay!
Saturday, 02 August 2008, 16:30
HoboBen
 		It could have been frozen carbon dioxide
Saturday, 02 August 2008, 17:35
blanko1324
 		Another recent article I read said that the water is most likely so salty and acidic, that it's pretty much poison. Not that I planned on drinking it or anything...

Here.

I never understood why scientists believe water is a first sign of potential life. The way I see it, this only applies to Earth, because life here evolved to require it. Alien biology could be completely different.
Sunday, 03 August 2008, 11:59
Phoenix
 		"...observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."

Did I fall asleep on the bus again?
Sunday, 03 August 2008, 20:31
Scherererer
 		I'm totally following the phoenix twitter now.