ICE ON MARS!!!

Not true Dave:

Scientists have known since the 1970s that the northern cap of Mars is mostly water ice

Quote From:

www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice_030213.html

Interesting, so why have they been searching for ice for the past 30 years when it's there in front of us ?

I guess the robots prime mission is the search for life,or previous life or possible life, organic compounds which maybe within the ice ??? according to the website "subsurface groundwater, which may still exist on Mars today, could harbor life,"

It might be a case of "Its ICE Jim but not as we know it" :lol:

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society

There is a difference between knowing something and having evidence/facts for it.

JMP

There's a lot to be said for direct confirmation. It's good science.

Bart.

I dunno, I like the findings. I mean, we have seen the presence of CO2 ice, but not water ice like this. It is whether microbial life is going to co-exist that is the intriguing part. Worms in volcanic vents on Earth and all that...

Seanie.