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Yes, there are subtleties here that are missed by the headline. Water ice on Mars is not new, particularly in the polar ice caps. What is new is that they have
by goodcanadian 7y ago
Yes, there are subtleties here that are missed by the headline. Water ice on Mars is not new, particularly in the polar ice caps. What is new is that they have produced a map of (very) near surface water ice at lower latitudes (within a few centimetres of the surface). This isn't exactly a surprise, but it also hasn't really been shown before. It shows that the water is there and widely available.
- izzydata 7y agoI'd like to see someone gather up all of the articles relating to water on mars and place them on a timeline with brief summaries of the actual progress being done. To most people it looks like water on mars over and over.
- goodcanadian 7y agoIt doesn't help that with this and most other science news, press releases always try to make the discoveries look like major breakthroughs when they are, in fact, incremental additions to our knowledge.
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoI would love a website that did that... for this and other topics like "Stem Cell break throughs". Science-News-Timelines.Org - Startup idea, maybe?