NASA spacecraft finds water on Mars
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![The Phoenix Lander has found water in a Martian soil sample. [NASA]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/mars_phoenix_nasa_010708.jpg "The Phoenix Lander has found water in a Martian soil sample. [NASA]")
The Phoenix Lander has found water in a Martian soil sample. [NASA]
The US space agency NASA says it has definitive proof that water exists on Mars.
Our Washington correspondent, Kim Landers, reports the Martian water has been found in a soil sample dug up by NASA's Phoenix Mars lander spacecraft.
NASA's lead scientist for the mission William Boynton says traces of water have only been observed from a distance before by the Mars orbiter.
"But we've now finally touched it and tasted it," he said.
"That's one thing that hasn't been done before and I'd like to say from my standpoint, it tastes very fine. I'm very glad to be in this position."
Scientists will now study the sample to see whether or not there has been life on Mars.
