"The robot arm is expected to begin its first digging operations after several more days of testing.
The final proof that the material is ice could take weeks, but close-up color images that were taken Saturday could improve the researchers' confidence level"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html
Awright so this thing costed like tons of fucking money made with state of the art shit and it can not detect water or ice within oh I dunno fucken 5 minutes?
What a piece of shit.
I for one suspect there is actually life on mars unfortunatly this fucking thing is not going to give us the answer only whether or not organic compounds exhist or not...
I would not be so sure that is even a good idea anyways, Mars organics may not even be remotley similer to earth organics whats so ever. The whole mission is fucking retarded.
I know them scientists are happy about the cheap ass mechanical arm thing but fuck an ehh! I bet it moves so fucking slow one could not even tell its moving if you were standing there watching the shit. Why the fuck didnt they just send a god damn Sony Robot with a piece of shit camara on it?
the results would already be in.