Blue Mars?

Wow. Check this out! Surface water-ice on Mars is a great find. I'm especially interested in it as I'm reading the book Green Mars at the moment!
I am all for missions, especially manned ones, to other planets. There is so much we can learn by getting off-planet. There are huge resources out there we can exploit both at home and as a springboard to the stars. If nothing else, we need to establish self-sufficient colonies against the possibility of an extinction-level asteroid impact.