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Phoenix sees snow above Mars, but it's not sticking

NASA's Phoenix lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds, hinting that liquid water may once have been common on the surface of the Red Planet. However, the snow seen by the explorer robot didn't merely turn to rain as it fell - it vapourised, never even reaching the ground at all. A laser-radar image of snow falling …

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Shaun
Alien

Not News, Santa was there first

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/

Wyrmhole
Heart

OMFG

So there was water on Mars, WE GET IT!

Now go do something useful with the planet FFS.

Alan Fisher
Linux

Ah well

It never sticks when you want it too, I'll bet, when the night comes, it'll stick then....it always sticks when it snows overnight, unless it's been raining and the ground's wet....an unlikely Martian event I feel.......maybe the rover will get lost in a snowdrift?

Anonymous John

Phoenix might even detect snow reaching the Red Planet's surface

Or even better, a gritting lorry.

NickS
Joke

Call the local council . . .

Experiencing traction problems . . .

We need an orbital gritter so the critter can move - oh and a battery pack

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

@Anonymous John

> Or even better, a gritting lorry.

More likely to see one on Mars than on the roads round here...

Anonymous Coward
Joke

Where is A Man from Mars

I'll bet he could give us any answers we wanted without having to mess around with these landers. Not to say that we would understand a word of what he would write, but it would at least be entertaining.

Anonymous Coward
Happy

Astounding

Sometimes I have to remind myself that we are looking at weather systems ON ANOTHER PLANET!

A planet that's not Earth but a completley different planet, in space and everything. When I do that, sometimes I feel a breif sense of awe.

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