So it's snowing on Mars.Follow

I must say, that was unexpected. I mean, I'm not any sort of expert, but with all the talk in recent years of "looking for signs of water" on the planet...I didn't really think it would be so, umm...prominent.

Nex

Too bad its not making it all the way to the ground. It would make for some rather dirty snowball fights if it did though :)

I'm scared

I just read about that (the snow, not Nexa). Pretty neat. The article I read made it sound as though snow might actually reach the ground in a month or so but the probe probably won't be active enough to enjoy it due to no sunlight on the solar panels.

We'll never hear from Nexa again.

Nexa is the unique Martian snow flake.

We knew that all along, somewhere in our cold and bitter hearts.

Like the Inuit, I have many words for snow. Unfortunately for snow, they're all slurs, stupid ******* snow.

Nad

Things going too well for you lately or something?

Nade

Now isn't the time to move to New England unless you like to ski, or snowboard, or just love freezing your *** off.

Nader

Nader? WE're all doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is some evidence that large, loose, icy comets are constantly bombarding Earth from space in roughly the correct rate to account for most all water on Earth. The supposition is that they are not near-Earth objects, but rather from far away and thus bombarding at least Mars and the Moon, if not the whole solar system. A rather tenuous extension of this is that these icy-comets may be quite common within galactic space (at least near us) and most nearby stars (and thus any planets near them) would get water. Of course keeping water is another story.

I looked into it and the press release from NASA doesn't specify water-snow. Technically, snow should be water - but then again ice should be solid water and they specify water-ice (in the same release) to distinguish it from carbon dioxide-ice. NASA has a history of this kind of thing.