March 22, 2004

News flash from the Red Planet

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Exploration Rovers at March 22, 2004 02:04 PM

NASA's top officials and the Mars rover missions' top scientists will announce "a major scientific finding" at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, the space agency announced today. The last time a Mars news briefing was announced just a day in advance, it was to report geological hints that the Opportunity rover's landing site was "drenched" with water many millions or even billions of years ago. Those were considered "significant findings." So how does a major finding compare? One could argue that "major" outranks "significant," because NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe is due to give opening remarks this time around.
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Water | fossil | lake | underground aquifers

which one will they pick for this release?

Past presence of water has been hum drummed to death so to be major it may be in relation to a new finding about signs of existing water – opportunity wallows in a mud patch.

Fossils - I think they will leave this for another day lots more media ramping to do yet

Old Lake - now that could be a major but still relates to the findings of ancient water flows and I wouldn’t consider this to be a major announcement.

Underground Aquifers - This would be a major story

I guess we will know soon enough.

Posted by: Craig Tait at March 22, 2004 08:15 PM

HOLY!!! S%$T I think they found a fossil! :)

Posted by: Oscar at March 23, 2004 07:04 AM