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peacemaker @ 04:06 pm: Ledus uz Marsa?

Shallow trenches excavated by the lander's backhoe-like robotic arm have turned up specks and at times even stripes of mysterious white material mixed in with the clumpy, reddish dirt.(..) If it's ice, scientists expect it to sublimate — or go from solid to gas, bypassing the liquid stage — when exposed to the sun because of the planet's frigid temperatures and low atmospheric pressure. (..) "We think it's ice. But again, until we can see it disappear ... we're not guaranteed yet," mission scientist Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis said Monday.

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Imo, ūdens atrašana uz Marsa būs nozīmīgāks notikums kā cilvēka nosēšanās uz Mēness. 700 zīmes 15.lappusē.