<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/1a279545-548d-48e5-b591-e6823002ec31/40BB376C-5CAD-410C-AC9F-43B527A9D5BA/" 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://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top" style="font-size: 11px;">www.computerworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top"><H1>NASA: With Martian ice discovered, major tests beginning</H1></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://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top"><P id="first_paragraph"><SPAN class="date">June 20, 2008 (Computerworld) </SPAN> After a technical glitch and the loss of data earlier this week, <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=NASA" title="NASA">NASA</A> engineers and scientists are finally finding what they'd hoped to discover in the latest Mars mission -- signs of elements that could support life.</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://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top"><P>Dice-size pieces of <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/" target="new">whitish matter</A> dug up in a trench on the Martian north pole appears to be ice, according to <A href="http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/people/arvidson.html" target="new">Ray Arvidson</A>, a co-investigator for Mars Lander's robotic arm team and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Dug up in a 7-to-8-cm-deep trench by the Lander's <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9090798">robotic arm</A>, the material disappeared after being exposed to sunlight, leading scientists to believe it was ice that simply melted.</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://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9101618&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top"><P>And ice -- or rather water -- is exactly what scientists were hoping to find on Mars.</P></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/40BB376C-5CAD-410C-AC9F-43B527A9D5BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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