NASA to reveal a "finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life"

[Better Believe It]

NEWS RELEASE
November 29, 2010

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167 NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at [e-mail] or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

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There is a lot of speculation in the scientific community on what their findings might be but we'll just have to wait for the news conference tomorrow. I don't think they have found ET! BBB

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Wow. I may have to get my wife to turn on the TV for me

& find NASA TV.

[Better Believe It]

4. I don't get NASA TV. So we can watch the NASA news conference on our computer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Satellite paid

And they found evidence of life bearing atmosphere?

Just a guess

The other would be either Europa or Mars...educated guesses both...

And if correct will be fun to watch.

[Subdivisions]

3. Saturn's Rhea has been discovered to have an O2/CO2 atmosphere. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Wow--I didn't know that.

How do you get O2 without some kind of reducing process--like photosynthesis?

[Subdivisions]

9. I don't know, JR. It must be pretty cold on Rhea too. Exciting though =) n/t

[jberryhill]

5. Felisa Wolfe-Simon "The results should be published by the end of this year" March 2010 -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article7040864.ece

Could the Mono Lake arsenic prove there is a shadow biosphere?

[woo me with science]

6. ....

[snot]

7. Keep us posted!