Ice on Mars: first look

Posted on June 20, 2008
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Clumps, thought to be ice, in Mars Phoenix lander photo

Large whitish clump, visible lower left of trench in Mars Phoenix Lander photoIce clumps on Mars? The recent announcement, first spotted on the MPL Twitter blog reports that the small grayish clumps visible in the lower left of the trench in the photo marked Sol 20 above, have disappeared by Sol 24, a discovery that is consistent with water ice sublimating into the thin, very dry Martian atmosphere.

My question is, what happened to the larger whitish clump visible in the picture, left, snapped on Sol 19, according to the MPL site. Stay tuned for some digital forensics on the Sol 19 image… photos courtesy NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona/ Texas A&M University…

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  1. More on Martian ‘mystery blob’ : www.gulker.com on June 20th, 2008 4:21 pm

    [...] Here’s a lightened, cropped version of the lower image in the post below, showing no chips or clumps in the shadow, but clearly showing the ‘mystery blob.’ [...]

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