Scientists believe Mars lander exposed ice crumbs
June 20, 2008 By JOHN ANTCZAK , Associated Press Writer
This color image released by NASA and acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Friday, June 13, 2008, shows one trench informally called "Dodo-Goldilocks" after two digs on June 12, by Phoenix's Robotic Arm. Shallow trenches excavated by the lander's backhoe-like robotic arm have turned up specks and at times even stripes of mysterious white material mixed in with the clumpy, reddish dirt. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL/CalTech)
(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 Thursday.
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Sure.. I'd dare to say mathematicaly precise evidence. It simply cannot be something else it's just clear.
This is my definition of perfect evidence:
A thing or process long expected by all the humans, seen in real-time happenning by all of them and also recorded by every detection device on the planet. That's PERFECT evidence for me.
calling it "perfect evidence" for water-ice is being scientifically very narrow minded...
we need not call anything vaporizable and white in color , ice just because we r looking for it.... do justice to the brand of NASA.....
The "America's best and brightest" need to find a way to put that white stuff into the oven!
Maybe it would be a good idea to work on shorter time delay instead of sending orders and waiting a whole day for the results to arrive. It might be necesary to act fast to prevent the supposed ice from evaporating before it gets a chance to be analized.
Finally I vote for digging next to the place where the white stuff was uncovered for the first time? There should hopefully be more there.
I am pretty sure it is not cold enough for CO2 to be in a frozen state under the soil.
The question is, is it dumb enough for the benefit of PhysOrg readers?