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Water Ice Found on Mars!
Posted by: ironfist on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 09:32
Submitted by ironfist
European Space Agency's spacecraft Mars Express has found a crater in the northern Martian hemisphere with water ice.

From the article:
"It cannot be frozen carbon dioxide since carbon dioxide ice had already disappeared from the north polar cap at the time the image was taken"

Article with good pictures


How is this PowerPC related? Well, IBM still has 100% CPU market share on Mars with NASA Mars Rovers. :)


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Re: Water Ice Found on Mars!

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by Trizt on Jul 30, 2005 - 17:37
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This ain't really true, Honeywell did supply computers for the Viking Landers, equipped with the 24-bit HDC-402, Viking II has lost it's battery (computer may work if powered), Viking I got a bad instruction from ground control and ended radio communication (computer may still be working, if the battery still is working).

We can't forget that Mars 2 (dropped to early and crashed), 3 (communication lost during a sandstorm) and 6 (crashed during landing, had a faulty CPU) didn't have access to any Motorola CPUs as hightech exports from USA to USSR was forbidden. So at least one Sovjet CPU could still be working on Mars.

The current market share on Mars for IBM would be more around 40-50%, if only counting possible "working" machines and depending on the crashed landers condition, the market share could be even lower.

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