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http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0205/28marshumans/ Probe quenches researchers' thirst for water data LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY NEWS RELEASE Posted: May 28, 2002 Researchers with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have determined that Mars has enough water to sustain human exploratory missions. A neutron spectrometer, designed and built at Los Alamos and flown aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey, has been mapping the Red planet for the past three months for hydrogen, an indicator of water-ice. The results appear in the May 31 issue of Science magazine. "The surface soils of Mars are rich in hydrogen," said Los Alamos' principal investigator Bill Feldman. "Soil...