<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2973199e-0ce7-4dc7-8196-b21202403a49/2706164A-1B17-44C9-B93B-F26450CD1FBF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html" href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html" style="font-size: 11px;">space.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><H2 class="inline">Mars lander may have found ice at polygon's edge</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> 23:10 16 June 2008 </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/space.newscientist.com/img/E950BAAC-7CDC-4F93-942F-4604564E855F" alt="It is not clear whether whitish material uncovered by Phoenix's robotic arm, which may be ice, is part of a larger underground layer or simply an isolated chunk (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A and M University)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><P>So far, the Phoenix team has found no evidence of water in their analysis of the Martian soil.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><P>The Phoenix lander has uncovered a patch of what may be ice on the border of a polygon-shaped section of soil in Mars's northern plains.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><P>The lander's robotic arm uncovered the white substance after further excavating sites called Dodo and Baby Bear to create one large trench. The patch sits at the edge of a <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13986-mars-scientists-ponder-polygon-mystery.html" linkindex="26">polygon</A>, a geological formation created by the seasonal expansion and shrinkage of ice in the Martian soil.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><P>But if the patch is part of a larger body of subterranean ice, the area may instead form frost as the underlying stores of ice cause water vapour in the air to recondense, says Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, US, head scientist for the robotic arm's activities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html"><I><B>Mars Rovers</B> – Mars is full of surprises; learn more in our continually updated <A href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/channel/space-tech/mars-rovers" linkindex="28" set="yes">special report</A></I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2706164A-1B17-44C9-B93B-F26450CD1FBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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