Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 20:21 in Astronomy & Space

Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.

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