NASA's Phoenix has collected an ice sample, delivered it into it's oven, and confirmed that water exists on Mars.
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After a bit of a struggle to deliver the sample to the landers internal lab, the experiment was completed and the existence of water on Mars has been confirmed.
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June 2, 2008
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Already Doing Research
The Phoenix Mars Lander, a mission to explore the Martian northern arctic plain, which launched from earth on 4 August, 2007, safely landed in the northern polar region of Mars on 25 May, 2008. No small feat as this was the first successful soft landing (one not using airbags) since the Viking 2 landing in 1976.
And the results are already coming in. The Canadian Space Agencies meteorological station gave its weather report for Sol 4 "sunny but dusty with increasing dust, causing decreasing visibility. High -30C, Low -80C, no wind measurements available.
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There has been possible ice found under the lander as well.
On Sol 7 (1 June, 2008) its robotic arm scooped its first sample from the surface of the red planet.
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All seems to be going well so far.
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