I with the responders thus far. Water on Mars is old news. That really doesnt mean much in the scheme of things. Show me life, then martian water will maybe then become interesting to me. I thought it was pretty obvious, with all the snow on the ground there in the winter seasons.


But thanks for the update none the less!

Oh, yes! A very strong point for NASA to beat us over the head with for yet more months if not years.

The eventual goal is to connect water to life. No doubt the plan is to find with the new mission evidence of past life and beat us over the head with it for a couple of years before they get to the real cookie.

Anyone--especially you youngsters, that doubt life on Mars needs to backtrack and research the mid 1970s twin missions of the Vikings landers with their "search for life" experiments and their results that were thrown out by TPTB. The designer of that experiment has reexamined the data and finds that the Vikings DID find life.

Why would such results be denied? Basically, for one important reason. Science was marching too strongly toward the truth that the public would not be in the mood to fully accept. It is easy to see that the ambitious Vikings were eons ahead of the public['s mind and, in fact, even scientific thinking about life in the Universe. Much of that anthroprocentric thinking is gone from science today. It is a firm bet that the new mission will give us undeniable evidence that there was, of course, life on Mars. and they will take their time ratcheting the real truth to us.

I think water on Mars has been known about for a long time, we're now looking for evidence of bottled water, and shopping malls. Pizza places and no fly zones on the moon, and coming soon, McDonalds and Burger Kings on Mars. Aliens gotta eat too.

You people really seem to take some findings in space exploration for granted. Yes, NASA has issued a lot of news in the past regarding the possibility of water once existing on Mars, and with every new clue that possibility is becoming more of a fact. I bet you when they finally do find water on Mars, most people will just brush it off with "Oh, we knew that already". No, we did not, it was only highly speculated. Personally I'm very excited about every little finding they make, and the fact that they have the technology and knowledge to do it. It makes me proud and hell, I'm not even from US.