The latest images from NASA's Phoenix Mars lander, released late Thursday, appear to confirm the presence of buried ice on Mars.
Photos taken of a trench dug earlier in the week by the lander's robotic arm showed that eight small, whitish chunks of material at the base of the trench had disappeared by Thursday. If those chunks had been some form of salt, as some scientists believed, they would not have evaporated, said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, the lead scientist for the $420-million mission.
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