Well, this is a game changer, make no mistake about THAT one.

There is water on Mars, so says the University of Arizona.  Check out the specifics:

The UA-run Phoenix Mars lander scraped the surface of our planetary neighbor to verify the presence of frozen water on Mars and now cameras orbiting above the red planet have found a meter-thick layer of nearly pure ice in recently formed craters.

Pure ice.  On Mars.  And it’s roughly three feet thick, for all of you what don’t habla metric.

They’ve had some idea that there was ice on Mars already, but not this thick, and not this pure, either.  That’s the part that’s got the science community in a positive uproar.  The question of the day is, what do we DO about it?  Ice on Mars.  Great.  We can barely keep the lights and heat on down here and there’s super-pure water on Mars in the form of ice.

Of course, there’s one great solution staring us in the face here–hydrogen.  The ultimate fuel source.  And pulling it out of Martian ice pretty much guarantees we won’t lose any of OUR water making it.  A cheap energy boom, worldwide, as suddenly the planet runs on Martian hydrogen.  Sounds like a moonshot to me!

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