Mars Rover Snaps Photos of Ancient Lake - Yawn.

They found a lakebed on Mars that, in its heyday, probably had all kinds of life swirling in it... alligators, turtles, bass fish, cute little alien minnows (aww)!

But, in all seriousness - this means Mars used to have a freshwater lake, which might have been home to Martian life.

I should be more excited.

See, the thing is, water on Mars isn't anything new to this site, or any avid astronomer, ufologist,  space nut, spaced out nut for that matter. Case in point:

• Rover finds evidence of ancient water on Mars - CNN, September 2012
  
• Meteorites Reveal Subsurface Water on Mars - Astrobio.net, June 2012
  
• Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars - Scientific American, March 2012
• I JUST REPORTED ON THIS MATTER a few months ago
  

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Why the constant stream of second-rate stories?

Why do we keep pretending like this is new information? Why do we keep pretending like we haven't thought the implications through? Why do we keep pretending like we haven't all watched Ancient Aliens?

NASA Photo, edited by a message board contributor in 2011 to suggest remnents of water

NASA's Official Photo in 2013

Despite the flood of evidence that water - oceans even! - once existed on Mars, some of us remain stubborn to the end:

I'll leave you with this...

A few words from Mr. Buzz Aldrin, NASA astronaut, about a monolith on Mars' moon:

And a few more from Curiosity's lead scientist John Grotzinger:

The really big surprise, however, was that clays drilled out from inside two mudstones and analyzed by the rover are much younger than scientists expected, a finding that extends the window of time for when Mars may have been suitable for life.