Cut 1 - MARS PHOENIX LANDER SCIENTIST WILLIAM BOYNTON, LEADSCIENTIST FOR THE TEGA INSTRUMENT, WHICH CONFIRMED THE PRESENCE OFWATER IN THE MARTIAN SOIL SAMPLE, SHARES HIS EXCITEMENT.
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Transcript: "Well, I'm very happy to announce that we've gotten anice sample into the TEGA oven. When we first found this out yesterday,we were really pleased. There were champagne corks popping in thedownlink room and we just had a great time of it. It's something we'vebeen waiting quite a while for. Of course, we know the GRS on MarsOdyssey discovered this ice six years ago, but we've now finallytouched it and tasted it. That's one thing that hasn't been done beforeand I'd like to say from my standpoint, it tastes very fine, I'm veryglad to be in this position."
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Cut 2 - MARS PHOENIX LANDER PROJECT SCIENTIST PETER SMITH OF THEUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON, DISCUSSES THE IMPLICATIONS OF CONFIRMINGTHE PRESENCE OF MARTIAN WATER.
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Transcript: "Through this analysis we hope to also be able toanswer questions that goes beyond just finding water ice, but is this ahabitable zone on Mars? A habitable zone meaning that we have periodicliquid water, not today but over time, and we have the materials thatare the basic ingredients for life forms. It'll be for future missionsto find if anybody's home in this environment, but we'll be findingthat this is a place that needs to be searched for life formsthroughout the next two months of our approved mission."
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