NASA has just announced that a photo taken by the Phoenix lander of the ground under it may show patches of ice! You can see in the image below the shiny patches where the overlying soil was blown away when Phoenix landed. That shiny stuff may be rock, but it looks a lot like ice.
“We were expecting to find ice within two to six inches of the surface,” said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, principal investigator for Phoenix. “The thrusters have excavated two to six inches and, sure enough, we see something that looks like ice. It’s not impossible that it’s something else, but our leading interpretation is ice.”
In the meantime, if you’ve got an LCD monitor with 1680 x 1050 resolution, check out this wallpaper I colorized of the image from Phoenix.
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