Comment on Confirmed: Ice on Mars. News broken by Twitter.Comments−dhotson18yI just had a thought.. is it possible the chunks could have just been blown away by martian wind?.. that sounded worse than I intended. :P−coffeeaddicted18yOr the salt was simply eaten by some martian animal - I can already imagine the disappointed faces of the NASA scientists when they find that out.−gambling8nt18yBlown out from the bottom of a trench? Without the trench getting filled in?−stcredzero18yThe KaBoom! Where's the Earth-shattering KaBoom!?−timr18yYou laugh. Check out the mission patch for the mars rover mission:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nasa_mer_marvin.jpg−hatethissite18yYes, the device loosened up some dirt whereas all the other loose dirt in the area had already been blown away by wind. Makes sense to me.
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I just had a thought.. is it possible the chunks could have just been blown away by martian wind?
.. that sounded worse than I intended. :P
Or the salt was simply eaten by some martian animal - I can already imagine the disappointed faces of the NASA scientists when they find that out.
Blown out from the bottom of a trench? Without the trench getting filled in?
The KaBoom! Where's the Earth-shattering KaBoom!?
You laugh. Check out the mission patch for the mars rover mission:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nasa_mer_marvin.jpg
Yes, the device loosened up some dirt whereas all the other loose dirt in the area had already been blown away by wind. Makes sense to me.