Sean
07-31-2008, 03:26 PM
So they knew it was there somewhere, but the Phoenix Mars Lander has now actually analyzed a scoop of dirt from the surface of the planet with frozen water in it (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08_195_Phoenix_water.html).
"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."
"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."