Nasa confirms Mars ice is made of water
Nasa has confirmed that it has definitely found water on Mars.
The organisation was fairly certain that the ice samples it was seeing were made of water but the Phoenix probe has now managed to heat up a sample and the substance is definitely water.
"We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."
