8 light-minutes

Finally! Although it’s not a reason for extasy, Phoenix has confirmed the existence of water in Mars. Yep, water, in the form of ice, but it is water. And this time around this is not a statetment based on data collected by the instruments aboard the fleet of probes orbiting Mars…. This time is a direct confirmation. Phoenix has taken a piece of ice, analyzed it and confirmed it was water.

By the way, the Cassini which is around Saturn, has confirmed the existence of at least one hidrocarbonates lake int the surface of Titan.

This is also being talked about at astroPT (only in Portuguese).