NASA on eve of big announcement: 'Mars mystery solved'

[Judi Lynn]

NASA on eve of big announcement: 'Mars mystery solved'
Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle
Updated 3:24 pm, Friday, September 25, 2015

NASA on Monday will announce "a major scientific finding" from Mars, the agency said Thursday in a vague press release.

"Mars mystery solved," the headline said.

No further details are available on the nature of the mystery. However, the lineup for the Monday press conference sports top agency authorities, including NASA director of planetary science Jim Green and lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program Michael Meyer.

The other guests, relatively unknown researchers from American universities, led the science and tech publication Inverse to speculate.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/space/article/NASA-on-eve-of-big-announcement-Mars-mystery-6529507.php

[Kilgore]

1. It's made of green cheese?

No wait, that's the moon.

[rateyes]

2. They found

Bugs Bunny!

[Thor_MN]

3. They found the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

[xocet]

4. "Earth creatures make me very angry!" n/t

[frogmarch]

5. Discovery of flowing water there

would be my guess. I hope the solved mystery is whether life exists on Mars and that living microbes have been found there, but that would be too good to be true.

I'm intrigued and can't wait for the Monday press conference!

[darkangel218]

10. You were spot on!

[frogmarch]

11. Thank yew

darkangel, but I'd read a few articles about it before the announcement, so I didn't come up with the possibility of flowing water on my own. I just thought that out of all the possibilities discussed in the articles, flowing water was probably it.

[darkangel218]

12. That takes nothing away from the fact that you were spot on :)

Cheers!!

[Kablooie]

6. It's going to be, once again, there used to be flowing water.

Something they've been saying for years.
Having a little more proof is not a big discovery but they will treat it like one.
They have to do a fancy tap dance to keep up funding in the face of the right wing Neanderthals who want to eliminate it.

[Kablooie]

6. It's going to be, once again, there used to be flowing water.

Something they've been saying for years.
Having a little more proof is not a big discovery but they will treat it like one.
They have to do a fancy tap dance to keep up funding in the face of the right wing Neanderthals who want to eliminate it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. NASA........ Never A Straight Answer

I think this anomaly found in the photos from the Mars surveyor is interesting.








http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3247514/Stonehenge-MARS-Bizarre-circular-stone-formation-red-planet-spotted-resembles-iconic-Pagan-site.html


Well, today is the day... NASA says
something, something might be water at one time or day on mars.

[Eugene]

9. Evidence found of summertime water flows on Mars: study

Source: Reuters

Innovation and Intellectual Property | Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:11am EDT

Evidence found of summertime water flows on Mars: study

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA | BY IRENE KLOTZ

Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of Mars during the planet's summer months, a paper published on Monday showed.

Although the source and the chemistry of the water is unknown, the discovery could affect thinking about whether the planet that is most like Earth in the solar system could support present day microbial life.

Scientists developed a new technique to analyze chemical maps of the Martian surface obtained by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

They found telltale fingerprints of salts that form only in the presence of water in narrow channels cut into cliff walls throughout the planet's equatorial region.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/us-space-mars-idUSKCN0RS1TR20150928