Mars Phoenix tweets: "We have ICE!"

Thank God its not oil. Mind you ice means 'terra forming' the planet is possible, right? Which means living on mars is a real possibility. Damn its going to be tough transporting oil out there to power everything. Guess will need an alternative form of energy!!

This is great news. Maybe, just MAYBE, in our life times there will be a terra formed Mars that we can go and visit.

That would be the greatest ever.

Good. Now we can send all the conservatives up there to cryogenically freeze them... then, wake them up in about 300 years just to say "I told you so."

Maybe we can melt all the ice on Mars too.

I think that might well be the plan...

Well if NASA ever sends men to Mars, at least they can have cold drinks.
(yes, I know I'm being silly)

That’s awesome. Hopefully this will fuel the idea that water and life are far more abundant in the universe than once believed.

Neat piece of information. Maybe this will spur us to make a greater effort to get off of earth.

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http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html

i rather used the money we spent to go see another planet that we dont live on, to research the funding for "cloning defensive cells" to help the process to cure cancer, or finding other natural was to power earth. i care about the planet im on as of now, not the one the might be on generations from now....

I have an ice machine in my freezer.
Therefore mars is in my freezer.
Therefore mars is the size of my freezer.
Therefore I am the first person to have traveled to mars.
There fore I think I may get a date tonight.
There four people are running in a line!

This isn't nearly as surprising or profound as it seems. H2O is H2O regardless of where it is. Frozen H2O is the same thing. What do people think? That hydrogen doesn't exist anywhere but on Earth?

CURRENTMARS; Where do I sign up?

Cool. Ice makes things much easier. Now the trick is to melt it.

Was anyone else wishing this headline read, "We have ALIENS!!!"

Yay! Ice on Mars?

Are you sure? Because I mean, this same story ran last week too.

...and most normally gaseous solids sublime just as in the picture too.

Maybe its carbon dioxide ice? or nitrogen ice? seems much more likely.

what?!?! They find ice/snow and they didn't build a snow man...
well, snow martian....

no think of it. if their were oil. man the oil companys would invent new forms of power to reach mars faster just to claim the oil and bring it back!!

ICE!??! Cool! There could actually be life on mars now!

This people are crazy, I don't see ice anywhere, looks more like an effort to keep getting funds for their expensive science experiment.

Ice?ICE?? Thats the bacis of life! There could be life up there once and for all! kwel!

Isn't interesting that the sun and the water are essentially made of the same thing, hydrogen?

Just Think if Mars is full of oil under all that ice...

Don't fooled again. NASA has always known that there'e life on Mars. Human Beings are foolish to think that Mars and the rest of the Universe is desolate and primative. ... Earthlings are the primates of this Galaxy.

Kieth ask Nasa to talk about the "space debris" following the shuttles....speeding up and slowing down...wow that "space debris" sure can appear to look like intelligent life..(sarcasm). as the Astronauts what they have seen and sworn to secrecy to.

or better yet ask Nasa about that "rock formation" they found which looked as if there was a humanoid figure walking around...what ever happened to those pictures.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=85012

HMMM just saying.

now we have to send people!!

i'll bet that millions of years ago mars was just like earth. i'm sure there was life too. maybe even a human-like life form that ravaged the planet . . .

Wow, a remote digital photo brought to you by Japan (post WWII).

Nice, ice. WE NEED FOOD!
'hunger' try
'starvation'

and I'm not just talking protein.
try knowledge. Media driven knowledge.
You know that thing called knowledge that is so squashed in so many places to where neither the parents nor kids read worth a damn.

NASA is a money laundering scam like so many other scams nowdayz (HUMANS DON'T DO GAMMA RAYS!). Let the Japanese take care of space, we have enough on our plate. Working class 'earth' people that is. Stop treading on us and rant rant lame done, so done with religi-regan fallout!

I hate typing this crap but that's life!

aniother liquid im sure the goverment will bottle and sell for 4.89 a gallon

wow, it's not coke... it's crystal meth!

Err... There is something sketchy about this report... All they have is photographic evidence. According to the article, the substance disappears after some amount of time. Although they brought up these two types of evidence, it still doesn't prove that what we see in the picture is ice. There are still so many objects that have that same visual structure and disappear after some amount of time. In fact, every object has the latter quality despite having them in different spans of time. Whenever scientists are in a lab, if they want to double check that the chemical they are observing is indeed the chemical they suspect, don't they do some sort of data analysis that reveals the physical structure, atomic mass and so on. Why would they just skip that step here? If you look at the bottom of the article, they have not finished examining whatever the substance is. They are still in the process. So yea, I am still skeptical of whether what they found is truly ice or not, since they have not provided conclusive evidence like a data analysis.

I'm not sure why exactly but this brought to mind Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice":

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.