Water on Mars

I really don't understand this "water found on Mars" meme that the press
likes so much. We have had evidences for decades now that the underground
of the planet is choke-full of ice.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, sraj wrote:

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> "We tend to think of Mars as this dry place to find water fairly easy
> to get out of the soil at the surface was exciting to me," said Laurie
> Leshin, dean of science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lead author on
> the Science paper which confirmed the existence of water in the soil.
> "If you took about a cubic foot of the dirt and heated it up, you'd get a
> couple of pints of water out of that a couple of water bottles' worth
> that you would take to the gym."
> http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/26/nasa-curiosity-rover-mars
> -soil-water
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> If so much water is there on the surface, there could be huge reservoirs
> underneath, just as in Earth?
>
> Selvaraj
>

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, sraj
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sraj99@...
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"We tend to think of
Mars
as this dry place to find
water
fairly easy to get out of the soil at the surface was exciting to me," said Laurie Leshin, dean of science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lead author
on the Science paper which confirmed the existence of
water
in the soil
. "If you took about a cubic foot of the dirt and heated it up, you'd get a couple of pints of
water
out of that a couple of
water
bottles' worth that you would take to the gym."
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/26/nasa-curiosity-rover-
mars
-soil-
water
If so much
water
is there on the surface, there could be huge reservoirs underneath, just as in Earth?
Selvaraj