Friday, June 20, 2008

Mars Phoenix Rover Finds Water Ice, Tweets

You may have heard via other nerd networks that the Phoenix rover on Mars stumbled upon some frozen water (AKA "ice") but what is a little disturbing to me is that it was announced via Twitter.

"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" the Mars Phoenix Lander tweeted at about 5:15 pm on the 19th of June. What if Twitter had been down!?!? Sheesh...

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