TheMars Phoenixjust issued a highly officialtwitter updatesaying that some white , lustrous stuff and nonsense it was staring at has sublimated . In other speech , it ’s decidedly ice . The previous discovery ofprobable icesent thousands of scientists and NASA fans into violent breakthrough - gasms , but until the Phoenix team was to observe sublimation , which is when ice skips the liquid state and just evaporates , they could n’t be certain .
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-phoenix-lander-finds-water-on-mars-394442
Digging earlier today , the Phoenix ( which patently has just128 MB of RAM ) knocked free a few white molecule that have since disappeared . So basically , the possibilities are as follows : Sublimation has occur , there is Martian ice , and our nestling ’s children ’s fry will enjoy iced lattes and Sno - Cones just like we do , or an alien just realise that we ’d entirely uncovered his cache . Either way , this is reasonably exciting . synodic month landing denier and gif fancier can curb out the ( jumbo ) test copy below , courtesty of NASA . [ Mars PhoenixviaTwitter ]
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