Mars Lander Discovers Oil

PASADENA, CA - NASA's Phoenix Lander, while searching for frozen water and organic compounds on the Martian surface, discovered today what appears to be crude oil instead. A secondary experiment, built by the Halliburton Corporation and included late in the mission planning, drilled 3 meters into the barren planet to make the find. The discovery, which may be good news for driver's pocketbooks, has some conservation groups crying foul.