"Martin 53N 1W" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in
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Martin 53N 1W wrote:

NewScientist gets a scoop on some upcoming papers.

'Pack ice' suggests frozen sea on Mars

    * 11:48 21 February 2005
    * NewScientist.com news service
    * Kelly Young

See:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7039
ftp://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/lpsc2005/full97.pdf

All compelling stuff!

For a good balanced summary, see:

Mars pictures reveal frozen sea
The find has implications for life on Mars

A huge, frozen sea lies just below the surface of Mars, a

team of

European scientists has announced.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4285119.stm

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"The fact that there have been warm and wet places beneath

the surface

of Mars since before life began on Earth, and that some

are probably

still there, means that there is a possibility that

primitive

micro-organisms survive on Mars today," Professor Murray

said.

"This mission has changed many of my long-held opinions

about Mars - we

now have to go there and check it out."
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Keep searchin',
Martin

Hi Martin; it all is certainly interesting stuff, but I sure
would like to see the confirmatory test data
(spectroscopic?) for water/ice other than "looking at it."
No question though that it should be investigated ASAP--and
for gods sake, this time, please put a scoop with a
microscope thingy on the darn probe arm so we can see them
Martian bugs up close! :)                ...tonyC

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