Snow is falling on Mars!

The Mars Phoenix has discovered all sorts of nifty things - water, atmospheric dynamics and now snow!

From NASA:
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.

A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) above the spacecraft's landing site. Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground.

The technology is Canadian and was designed under the watchful eye of Dalhousie prof Tom Duck.

It's beginning to feel a lot like a science christmas around the future soon... except for the baby Jesus bit.