Blow torches and ice

Canadian weather station heads to Mars





There's going to be a parachute to slow it down and retro-rockets will be firing off," Duck told CBC Newsworld on Saturday.


Oh oh oh! I saw this one before !

The USA did it. They put a lander on mars , it came down on a nice rocket flame , then stuck an arm in the soil looking for life. You know what it found ?

Rocket fuel. From it's own rocket.
Dang thing had blow torched the area it was landing on , of course, killing anything within a several yard radius. Then it stuck the arm in the blow torched mess and found nothing , of course !

So ...the lander is going to go looking for ice after blow torching it's landing area eh ? Good luck with that one.

(edit)
Found a pic of the phoenix lander ... hmmm.. no wheels on that baby , so much for the theory that it will simply roll off the landing spot a hundred yards or so.