Phoenix Finds Water In Form of Ice on Mars, Search For Life on Mars Begins [Are We On the Brink of A Major Scientific Discovery?]

Published: June 1, 2008, 7:45 pm

According to exciting news just hitting the wires NASA's Phoenix has purportedly located what scientists are certain is ice just under the surface of Mars which appears to have been discovered thanks to the Phoenix Lander's twelve retrorockets used to slow the descent of the Phoenix prior to touchdown on the Martian surface blowing away several inches of the surface to reveal what is believed to be an extended table of ice. Image of Hard Substrate, Possibly Ice, Uncovered Under the Mars Lander (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech//University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute) Should the shiny and smooth' material prove to be ice (and the programme's scientists are convinced that the material unearthed is exactly this) then this would serve as a strong indicator that liquid water - which is essential for life as we know it could have existed many millions of years ago when Mars was warmer which, in turn, could suggest that Mars may once have sustained a habitable

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