Ice on Mars (officially)

NASA has officially found ice on Mars.

"It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona.

We still haven't found official life anywhere else in the universe, but we do know that on Earth everywhere that we have found water-ice we have found life. Whether it be at the bottom of the ocean feeding off of sulfur, pulled from 100,000 to 8 million year old ice cores from Antarctica or bacteria living in the sky and potentially having significant affect on rain cycles.

The goal of the Phoenix Lander was to find a spot where they might find organic molecules and to do that they aimed for what seemed to be large amounts of water ice just below the surface of the dirt. Well, before they even began to dig for ice they found it and quite possibly are standing on top of a sea of frozen water.