"But...but....Mars has lots of water too!" say jealous Mars scientists

From:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=29232
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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.

Scientists controlling instruments on the orbiter found bright ice exposed at five Martian sites with new craters that range in depth from approximately 1.5 feet to 8 feet. The craters did not exist in earlier images of the same sites. Some of the craters show a thin layer of bright ice atop darker underlying material. The bright patches darkened in the weeks following initial observations, as the freshly exposed ice vaporized into the thin Martian atmosphere. One of the new craters had a bright patch of material large enough for one of the orbiter's instruments to confirm it is water ice.

The finds indicate water ice occurs beneath Mars' surface halfway between the north pole and the equator, a lower latitude than expected in the Martian climate.
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What strange timing for this announcement eh? :D

Sometime things just happen when they happen...

It's suddenly becoming a threat to Mars...well...at least to funding for missions (robotic and manned) to Mars.

Lunar scientists. All I'm saying is that there's a bit of friendly competition going on, nothing more.

"War Against the Moon Beast!"---------------------------------------------"It's Invasion by Electronics!"