Friday, June 20, 2008

Scientists believe Mars lander exposed ice crumbs (AP)

This image provided by NASA shows the before, left, and after images of possible sublimation of ice in the trench informally called 'Dodo-Goldilocks' over the course of four days. The dice-size crumbs of bright material in the bottom left of the the trench in the left image taken June 15, 2008 have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed, right image taken June 19, 2008 by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said.




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