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Until now, with $11.7B quarterly profit | evidence of ice in Mars’ north pole region has been largely circum- Researchers stantial. proved the soil had In 2002, the orbiting ice because it melt- Manny heads to Odyssey spacecraft spied ed at 32 degrees and Dodgers as part what looked like a reser- released water mol- voir of buried ice. After ecules. Plans called of big trade | Phoenix arrived, it found for baking the soil what looked like ice in at higher tempera- a hard patch under- tures next week to neath its landing site seek carbon-based and changes in a trench compounds. indicated some ice had turned to gas when exposed to the sun. Brendan Fraser Scientists popped open champagne when they received confirmation Wednesday that takes on a mum- the soil contained ice. “We’ve now final- my once more, ly touched it and tasted it,” said William this time in Chi- ALTAFFER/AP MARY Boynton of the University of Arizona. Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25 on a na. Plus, Alice three-month hunt to determine if it could sup- Cooper spins a port life. It is conducting experiments to learn fearful web on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during a town hall-style meeting in Racine, whether the ice ever melted in the red planet’s Wis., on Thursday. The Republican presidential candidate’s camp accused Sen. Barack Obama, history, possibly leading to a more hospitable his latest album. D-Ill., of trying to use the “race card” to his advantage, injecting the volatile subject matter into environment. It is also searching for the elu- the campaign publicly for the first time. sive organic-based compounds essential for simple life forms to emerge. 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