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...I'm assuming, though, that thruster rockets are somewhat hotter than propane torches and were firing for more than a second or two (else the lander would have gone splat-crunch, yes?) I'm fine with the idea that not all the ice would necessarily have melted -- it just seems odd to me that there w...

Okay, my stupid question of the day...granted, I was raised in the pulp era of science fiction, but I don't think the melting temperature of water ice has changed much since my day -- if the lander was firing rockets all the way to touchdown, how can there be that much solid ice on the surface direc...