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"Perfect Evidence" ICE on Mars!

phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu — "It must be ice," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it's ice. There had been some question whether the bright material was salt. Salt can't do that."

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  • BriFi, on 06/20/2008, -11/+574just got the tweet from mars phoenix:
    "are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"
  • cjennings, on 06/20/2008, -6/+454and where there's ice there's hockey
  • steger, on 06/20/2008, -45/+376God planted the ice to test our faith duh. Just like dinosaur bones, oh and carbon dating too.
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -33/+287in other news bill gates ordered the most expensive glass of ice water ever!!!!!
  • dlsspy, on 06/20/2008, -3/+229There's an animation on the home page of that site:

    http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/dodo_020_024 ...

    Somebody bottle this up!
  • IxE78, on 06/20/2008, -8/+215Therefore, mars belongs to Canada!!!
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -18/+206bill gates wouldn't do that and that was a stupid comment!!

    GET THE HELL OFF DIGG!!
  • dturnbull, on 06/20/2008, -14/+189But will it blend?
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -9/+178hey that was kinda mean!
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -11/+165***** you! it's people like you that are ruining digg!
  • Acglaphotis, on 06/20/2008, -1/+128Are you schizophrenic like us?
  • blackgrape, on 06/20/2008, -11/+110Some will point to it as evidence of Mars global warming. And tax it.
  • erazmus, on 06/20/2008, -4/+102Or, maybe, just maybe, martian salt-eating ants arrived at the scene between the first and second image and carried the salt crystals back to their anthill...
  • manjy90, on 06/20/2008, -4/+100What do people from Arizona know about ice?
  • scalemodlgiant, on 06/20/2008, -8/+100This is big. WAY big.
  • perhapsimcrazy, on 06/20/2008, -2/+94now all we need is scotch and im good to go on the mission.
  • bmson, on 06/20/2008, -4/+89Or me?
  • bmson, on 06/20/2008, -4/+88Who me?
  • DeskFlyer, on 06/20/2008, -4/+86That's what she said.
  • inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+80That's what Vanilla Ice's manager said right before the release of his debut album.
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -2/+80I MADE A COMMENT CHAIN THAT WENT NOWHERE !!!!!


    AND NOW IM TAKING UP SPACE THAT SHOULD BE USED TO DISCUSS AN IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC FIND!!!!!!!!


    A.D.D. FTW!!!!
  • kevman459, on 06/20/2008, -0/+76Now all we need to find is the underground alien machine that vaporizes the ice to turn it into a breathable atmosphere.
  • Rippleeffect, on 06/20/2008, -3/+76Where does the Bible say, "And there shalt be no ice on Mars"?
  • Gryffydd, on 06/20/2008, -13/+85I fail to see how this ice would test anyone's faith.
  • Jenadae, on 06/20/2008, -3/+69*plugs controller into port 2*

  • AtheistPride13, on 06/20/2008, -10/+74maybe the devil put it there to throw us off the path to god
  • netkrash, on 06/20/2008, -11/+70[N]ICE!!!!!
  • ThinkBox, on 06/20/2008, -1/+59ATTENTION: We are now living in the future... a robot on another planet sends us messages to our phones!
  • matt510, on 06/20/2008, -3/+61Huzzah for sublimation!
  • kman86, on 06/20/2008, -3/+56Perhaps the maple leafs should join the martian league. At least that way they'll have a chance of winning something :)
  • matt510, on 06/20/2008, -0/+52And the followup: "Whoohoo! Was keeping my eye on some chunks of bright stuff & they disappeared! Sublimated! So it can't be salt, it's ice."
  • chrgrose, on 06/20/2008, -7/+59AMERICA -- ***** YEAH!!!

    As a geochemist, this is pretty damn exciting. On the other hand the crystals could have been blown away by wind.
  • lololol1, on 06/20/2008, -2/+53Go Humans!
  • tenspeedogbb, on 06/20/2008, -4/+52The same place it says marijuana is wrong, the death penalty is a great idea, and reading Harry Potter is a sleight against God.

    HINT: Nowhere
  • tzilla12, on 06/20/2008, -10/+57shut up. you think your so ***** clever.

    ron paul 08!!!!
  • willotoons, on 06/20/2008, -0/+46can we talk about how funny it is that all they could come up with to name the trench is "Dodo-Goldilocks" haha
  • RetroRufio, on 06/20/2008, -3/+45Well done... all of you.
  • aptanalogy, on 06/20/2008, -1/+43I'm hoping that they find organic compounds next.
  • VaporBro, on 06/20/2008, -2/+43And where there is hockey there is hockey hair.
  • copypastry, on 06/20/2008, -2/+43Well it's not a stretch, Mars is the "red planet", but we could just call it the "red and white planet" :D
  • teddtech, on 06/20/2008, -3/+37Wow now that's a revelation! I'm sure the rocket scientists at NASA never thought about that!
  • AtheistPride13, on 06/20/2008, -0/+31This is one of the most important space missions in years. I hope that they find something that will change the way we look at the universe
  • ZeroOrDie, on 06/20/2008, -0/+28During.
  • artofficial, on 06/20/2008, -1/+29pretty sure we'll all still look up.

    ummm... j/k?
  • Matt174e, on 06/20/2008, -0/+27I didn't realise it at first, but it's funny to me too. Thank for pointing that out.
  • Khanvalescent, on 06/20/2008, -0/+27Study: Arizona hot spot for crystal meth use.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/05 ...
  • Daggity, on 06/20/2008, -2/+28Schizophrenia isn't MPD.
  • dturnbull, on 06/20/2008, -3/+27You're thinking too hard.

    "But will it blend?" always gets dugg up in the comments if it somehow relates to the story at hand.

    I wanted to be dugg up. That is all.
  • aelder, on 06/20/2008, -6/+30I like to imagine Isaac Kleiner writing the Twitter updates.

    "We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"


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