The Phoenix Mars Mission is proving to be worth the amount of money it cost. Yesterday, it was announced that the Mars lander found ice on June 15.

“I don't know how you could have so much hydrogen under the surface, and something that disappears at just the temperature of ice, and have it not be ice," Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson and prinicpal investigator for the Phoenix mission was quoted as saying in the Washington Post.

The lander found small chunks of bright material which vaporized four days after it was uncovered. The discovered chunks of ice require further analysis, but look to be very promising. This is a huge step in space exploration.