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

Shaun

Not News, Santa was there first 

Alien

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

Wyrmhole

OMFG 

Heart

So there was water on Mars, WE GET IT!

Now go do something useful with the planet FFS.

Alan Fisher

Ah well 

Linux

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

Call the local council . . . 

Joke

Experiencing traction problems . . .

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

Anonymous Coward

@Anonymous John 

> Or even better, a gritting lorry.

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

Iam Me

Where is A Man from Mars 

Joke

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.

dudeskinn

Astounding 

Happy

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.