A couple of days ago, it was big news when ice was found on Mars. Now, an upcoming study in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta claims that the Martian environment was once wet enough to produce morning dew. This finding runs counter to the more widely accepted view that liquid water on Mars seeped up from the ground, rather than falling from the sky as precipitation.
"Makes me wonder if there is other data that has been collected on all those missions nobody ever thought to cross-check before." Yea thats a good point. We've been spending millions to send more and more complex robots to mars but have we been keeping up with what we started in the 70's. Hopefully this will encourage more scientists to rethink some of our generally accepted theories about mars. Cant wait for Phoenix to dig up something new. PS. we need a moderator to ban gaetanomara. I dont know what the policy is for popsci.com but normally spamming ads for your blog and flaming are not acceptable. Besides getting angry and posting a whole bunch of hate towards nasa is just a waste of electricity.
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