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I feel jaded. I know NASA has new evidence of water on Mars. I know this is true everyday when I wake up, because they've announced it so many over the last 10 years. I don't care any more.

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If you're jaded (as am I and the public) do yourself a favor and don't read the article as it's "more of the same". Summary: We can't confirm nor deny that water exists, but there is no smoking gun yadda yadda.

Honestly at this point, if NASA ever finds the proverbial "smoking gun" they'll need to hold some never-seen-before massive press conference with fireworks, giant balloons, and celebrity guests to get anyone's attention.

Yeah, at this point I've heard so much about water on Mars that the next unmanned probe should float.

Ah! Well said. Almost made me spit-take my coffee.

To be fair, we know there is sometimes liquid water on mars, at least it is incredibly unlikely that there would be none at all, comets crash into it occaisionally, for instance.

Evidence of liquid water regularly occuring near the surface is very exciting though. This isn't cool because they might find H2O, we know that there is H2O, this is cool because having liquid water near the surface increases the chance of finding life.

"NASA finds Water on Mars" is what I am looking for until then its the same old.

Can someone create a site with a counter how many times NASA has discovered water on Mars?

Yes, at this point my reaction was like "wait, didn't they say this several times already"?

Reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/1189/

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