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NASA/ASU: Possibility of Liquid Water On Surface
James Burk
Sept 27 - In today's release from the NASA/ASU/THEMIS team, an image showing the floor of the Hellas Basin, there is this apparently "low-key" announcement:
Indeed, and MarsNews.com will continue our analysis of all the THEMIS data coming in -- and not always coming in from official NASA websites. We are currently preparing an update to our previous report on the July 24th/25th image of Cydonia. Stay tuned...
Update - Sept 28: NASA/ASU/THEMIS has changed the photo caption! It started off by saying that "It is likely that water ice or even liquid water is present in the deposits and is somehow responsible for the observed landscape."
Then they changed it to "It is possible that water ice or even liquid water was present in the deposits and somehow responsible for the observed landscape." -- thereby changing the conclusion from current water on the surface, to past water carving the feature, also changing the word "likely" to the weaker "possibly". What is going on here?
Editor's Note: I had read the first version on the THEMIS site and constructed this article accordingly, as it was a big admission by NASA -- when I went to copy/paste the THEMIS quote, I unwittingly pasted in the new "possible" version... thanks to several readers for pointing this out.
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