Disappearing Bright Specks Show Mars Has Ice, NASA Says [News]

Friday, June 20, 2008 - 19:14 in Astronomy & Space

Bright crumbs that were visible earlier this week in one of the trenches dug by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander are no longer there, according to images released yesterday by the space agency. Mission scientists said the disappearing act leaves them with only one conclusion: the material was ice that vaporized directly from the solid form in the dry, frigid Martian polar atmosphere. [More]

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