NASA to Announce 'Major Science Finding' Regarding Mars on Monday

[DonDadda59]

Word through the grapevine is the discovery of liquid water.

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/spa...scoveryChannel

Finding this would be a lot more interesting:



But water's cool too... I guess

[BurningHammer]

Either water or some kind of living beings, maybe.

[warriorfan]

It's gonna be something lame like proof that there used to be ice or some shit

[CavaliersFTW]

Liquid water has already sort of been discovered, areas where the surface strata of Mars appears wet has already indicated at times near-surface-ice melts and liquefies in the soil temporarily however any exposed water or rather moisture that appears on the surface goes almost straight to the form of a gas due to the low atmospheric pressure. So the only thing they could discover in terms of water that would be surprising would be if there is some sort of newly discovered underground reservoire or something. I don't think the atmospheric pressure would support bodies of liquid water on the surface.

But the purpose of the Mars Curiosity mission hasn't been about finding water, it's been more about finding the other mineral and chemical ingredients that are necessary for sustaining life. So, I'd imagine this is more related to finding an ingredient that was important to life that has not yet been found or known with certainty to exist or exist in significant abundance previously. Just my guess.

[CavaliersFTW]

It's gonna be something lame like proof that there used to be ice or some shit

Liquid water has already been proven in Mars ancient history.

Surface ice STILL exists. And surface moisture/temporarily wet surface strata still exists though due to low atmospheric pressure it evaporates almost immediately so no bodies of water on the surface are known to even be capable of existing.

So while you still might conclude w/e they mention is "lame" the examples you listed won't be them. Those things are already known.

[The Valley]

They discovered Cannabis on Mars.

[CavaliersFTW]

They discovered Cannabis on Mars.

[andgar923]

Mannnn.... they'd never say they found any sort of life form.

That shit would be stopped in a second.

[CavaliersFTW]

Bigfoot sighting on Mars

[BasedTom]

They found Real14

[CavaliersFTW]

They found Real14

[Sarcastic]

They found peanuts, and it will be now called Snickers.

[Nick Young]

[iamgine]

Why they gotta announce the announcement.

Can't they just announce the actual news "Hey btw we found a blue SUV on mars k thx bye."

[TheMan]

If they found any type of life form, even if it's primitive like at the celular level, that would be huge. We'd need to stamp out.

Next thing you know, this will happen