[BykrBayb]

Moisture, as we know it, (humidity) has been pretty much ruled out.

How much is "pretty much?" Someone (I can't find the post now) suggested some other liquid like oil. I hadn't considered the effect of gravity. Anybody know what the gravity on Mars is compared to Earth? (Like that's the missing piece of the puzzle, and if you just tell me that, I can solve the mystery. lol) Hmmm.... I still think there has to be some kind of liquid (oil-based, water-based, or whatever) in the soil. And the more I think about it, the more I think it's water-based. It seems to have evaporated from the surface.

[PoorMuttly]

Oh great. Now they found our cheese.

It's enough to make a puppy want to bite the Mailman...again.

[tet68]

I know it looks nice and sunny but keep in mind it's way below freezing. -70f on average. perhaps somewhat warmer there at a low latitude. Any water would show itself as a frost ice perhaps a soil upheaval unless pretty well down in the earth or should I say in the mars?

Better?

[Cold Heat]

If my memory is not faulty. Mars gravity is about .38-G or there abouts.

Water, I would think, would be in the atmosphere if it were that close to the surface, and they have have not found any that I know of. they think it may be in the form of ice at the poles.

I had posted that perhaps the sticky soil was from a liquid mineral of some sort, like silica.

But I figure that they will have something on that soon.