It's in the regolith!

LIFE ON MARS?
A new discovery may finally answer the question that has puzzled Mars researchers for decades.

US spacecraft "Mars Odyssey" has apparently detected massive quantities of frozen water just below the planet's surface. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since late last year.

It has found evidence that just below the Martian surface there are great sheets of ICE.

Early close-up pictures of Mars showed a barren wasteland of deserts and craters, canyons and dried up river beds.

Clearly, water had once existed on the Red Planet, but where did the hell did it all go?

The answer is in the regolith, the layer of loose rock and dust on the planet surface.

Researchers believe that if life had developed on Mars, it might still exist in the moisture underground.

If it looks anything like Marvin, we'll let you know.

NASA had planned to announce the historic discovery next week but the news was leaked to a Brit newspaper.

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  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 24 years ago
    Golly, will they bring some of the water back to earth? A new terrorist weapon; the martian flu.
  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 24 years ago
    Ok, I know how fascinated all your netmeisters and webdabblers out there are in this topic, so...

    Here are a few more interesting tit bits (and WHAT, you may well ask, could possibly be more interesting that a bit of tit?). Read on, McDuff:

    Scientists speculate that some cataclysm stripped the red planet of much of its envelope of atmosphere billions of years ago, and left it frozen, arid and lifeless.

    Ice crystals exist less than one metre below surface of the planet.

    Melted, the ice would create a planet-wide ocean 500 metres deep

    NASA may commit to landing on Mars in 20 years, if it can raise the funding for a new rubber band.

    A lobby group is being established to launch Presidunce George Enron head-first into the Martian wasteland.

  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 24 years ago
    Maybe that monstrous volcano and huge chasm that makes the Grand Canyon look like a scratch can provide some clues as to what ended life on Mars?
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