There is nothing new with "Water in Mars is discovered.." so why do they keep announcing it

Question

There is nothing new with "Water in Mars is discovered.." so why do they keep announcing it

Answer 1

Water has long been suspected, but never proven before. We knew that the Martian ice caps were mainly frozen carbon dioxide, but without direct testing, we had no iron-clad proof that water was present right now on Mars.

Answer 2

It gives them something to do to justiy the salaries they are paid and it keeps those oh so scientifically awe struck masses (I think there are at least a few dozen of them) amused. Finding water on mars is no big deal since mars is a terrestrial planet similar to the earth and formed out of the same sort of stuff that the earth was. I am sure that liife exists elsewhere and whether we prove it or not doesn't really matter. It would only matter if they showed up in flying saucers and started zapping the h**l out of us. Or if we brought some of it back to earth and it escaped and started melting people or something. So called exploration of space is a joke. You go a hundred miles up and, wow, you are in space. I can't believe that people think is such a big deal. There are so many problems on earth that people should not be wasting money on this sort of nonsense.

Answer 3

Seeing is different than tasting.Now Phoenix have tasted it and found not just liquid,but water  found water vapour coming when heated.That is the difference.

Answer 4

What do you mean "nothing is new"?

Up until a few days agoi, there was no PROOF.

That's the problem with "scientific theories" -- they ar NOT true until they are proved by actual fact..  For many years, it has been a THEORY that there was water on Mars, but it was only last week that it has been PROVEN to be true.

But scientific theories can be wrong.  For a long time men thought  that the moon is coverd in billions of years of cosmic dust, really fine powder hundreds of feet deep. It was "scientific theory" that the Moon Lander would sink into the dust and never be seen again.

But is WAS just a theory, but it was never PROVEN to be FALSE until man landed on the moon.

So the PROOF of water on Mars is a new and exciting PROOF.

Answer 5

There was no damning proof. It has been long suggested, but the recent findings have clarified it.