Small meteorites pop holes in Martian surface, reveal lakes of pure ice

*One wonders why we weren't looking for these earlier. Because nobody
thought about it, that's why.

*Makes one wonder what else is happening on Mars that nobody
thinks to look for.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2009/03/lpsc_2009_little_asteroids_on.html

"But the gist of the work is worth repeating: members of the MRO HiRise team are using fresh impact craters as probes of the subsurface, and are finding ice farther south than anyone has thought possible. Pictured here are th