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Water’s discovery will ignite the debate among Darwinian; Intelligent Design and Divine Plans.

In 2002, the Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars spied what looked like a reservoir of buried ice. A few weeks ago when the Phoenix spacecraft arrived on Mars, it found what looked like ice in a hard patch underneath its landing site and changes in a trench indicated some ice had turned to gas when exposed to the sun. A soil sample was retrieved with a remote control arm, and melted it.

Until now, evidence of water on Mars’ has been largely circumstantial but now water has been confirmed. Now it will be cooked to determine if there is the presence of carbon-based compound. Those and water are considered essential building blocks for life.

NASA says it would extend the mission for an extra five weeks to see what else can be learned before the craft runs out of power this Winter. The discovery had champaign corks popped at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

The implications are staggering because discovery of water on Mars, if in sufficient supply can mean Mars could become a human base, and might even be able to be “terra farmed” or converted to a livable place for humans to use. The cost of transporting water to Mars from earth has been cited as perhaps the biggest hurdle to long range human exploration of the plant.

Whether organic compounds are discovered or not water’s discovery will ignite the debate among Darwinian; Intelligent Design and Divine Plans.