{"id":617,"date":"2008-06-21T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-06-30T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T18:38:39","slug":"scientists-say-evaporation-proves-ice-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say Evaporation proves ice on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reinforced by images showing what appears to be water ice, Phoenix team members are moving ahead with plans to analyse the soil in-depth. The composition of the first soil sample delivered to an onboard oven may be known within days, and the lander is already attempting to collect a second sample. Images received from Phoenix showed that several clumps of soil that had appeared in an earlier image had apparently vaporised over the course of four days.That\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>suggests the white material is\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>water ice\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>and not salt or other materials, the team says.<\/span><\/p>\n

So,<\/span> <\/span>was Mars once a living world? Does life continue, even today, in a holding pattern, waiting until the next global warming or some other biological event? Would finding “life” alter the way people view science? <\/span>What are your views?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reinforced by images showing what appears to be water ice, Phoenix team members are moving ahead with plans to analyse the soil in-depth. The composition of the first soil sample delivered to an onboard oven may be known within days, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-9X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2332,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2332","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":0},"title":"“Talk Science With Me” event in Gainesville","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an interesting event happening in Gainesville tonight called Talk Science With Me. Scientists from the University of Florida will be at various locations around town standing by to chat with you and answer your burning science questions. Their publicity\/social media isn't the best at this point so I'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2332#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=596","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":1},"title":"Camp, Phoenix, bikini, and squid.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"==> UCF is offering week-long science summer camps, which sound very cool. But the camps have filled up mighty fast; there are hardly any left. Youths will learn what causes the feeling of weightlessness during long drops on roller coasters and solve crimes using hair and fingerprint analyses during summer\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 13 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 13 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=596#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":225,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=225","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":2},"title":"Science education starts young","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The St. Lucie School System is taking a step in the right direction concerning science education. Science understanding requires a firm foundation built as early as possible in children's lives. So, a group of elementary school teachers were treated to a week of science to get them thinking about how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=722","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":3},"title":"Science FCAT “Lessons Learned”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Department of Education announced today that they released a publication entitled \"FCAT Science Lessons Learned: 2003\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2006 Data Analyses and Instructional Implications\" (pdf is here). This document was created by a Task Force that analyzed the data supplied by science FCAT scores from 2003 to 2006. The Task Force identified\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "FCAT"","block_context":{"text":"FCAT","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=66","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":4},"title":"Now this is what science is about","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Science is about getting out there and getting your hands dirty. It can be about being away from home for long stretches, being uncomfortable and working together. It's not about useless debates and showboating for the general public. You want a little taste of science? Try this out: ON THE\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Science in Action"","block_context":{"text":"Science in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1123","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":5},"title":"Second annual fundraising wrap up","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We're all done, folks! This year we gave a total of $1,775 to 13 classrooms across Florida for science education learning tools. (Last year we gave $1,507 to seven schools.) Here are the schools we helped this time and the kinds of stuff they now have because of you: >>\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Raising $ for classrooms"","block_context":{"text":"Raising $ for classrooms","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}