There's growing speculation NASA is about to announce it has discovered flowing water on Mars

[bananas]

Source: Business Insider

NASA today made a very brief announcement that it’s preparing to share details of a “major science finding” early next week.

The space agency gave out a list of participants who will speak, and notice of a “brief question-and-answer session”, so there’s not a lot to go on.

But a couple of names on the list have journalists and bloggers speculating that NASA is about announce it has found evidence of water on Mars. Possibly even flowing water.

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But it was as an undergrad at the University of Arizona where Ohja made a lot of headlines in 2011. At 21, the science fiction fan and Nepal native co-authored a study that suggested liquid water flowed during the warmer months on Mars.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/theres-growing-speculation-nasa-is-about-to-announce-it-discovered-flowing-water-on-mars-2015-9

[bananas]

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

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

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.

"Our best guess: flowing water, and the potential for alien life," the publication wrote late Thursday.

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[Jesus Malverde]

3. I vote for the crab

http://www.smash.com/alien-space-crab-mars-conspiracy-theorists-claim-nasa-photo-reveals-mysterious-facehugger-creature/

[jberryhill]

5. I, for one, welcome our new facehugging crab overlords

[Jesus Malverde]

8. The bush dynasty continues....

[Marty McGraw]

9. just had to lead us there

Didn't you

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. In a recent Doctor Who episode someone mentions that movie....

The Doctor says, "You've got a horror movie called 'Alien'? Oh, that's REALLY offensive, it's no wonder you keep getting invaded."

[roscoeroscoe]

31. Hail... Eris?

Is that you?

[bananas]

2. "the water could be entirely of atmospheric origin."

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2015/09/nasa-will-revea.html

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Keith's update: A NASAWatch reader artfully tipped us off to this session of the European Planetary Science Congress 2015 in France on Monday, 28 September - and one paper authored by several of the participants (McEwen and Ojha) in the NASA press conference:

17:00-17:15 EPSC2015-786 Recurring Slope Lineae on Mars: Atmospheric Origin?, AS McEwen, M Chojnacki, C Dundas, L Ojha, M Masse, E Schaefer, and C Leung

"Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) are seasonal flows or seeps on warm Martian slopes. Observed gradual or incremental growth, fading, and yearly recurrence can be explained by seasonal seeps of water, which is probably salty. The origin of the water is not understood, but several observations indicate a key role for atmospheric processes. If sufficient deliquescent salts are present at these locations, the water could be entirely of atmospheric origin."

[Jesus Malverde]

4. Firm behind Apple’s Spaceship HQ reveals plans for Nasa-backed 3D printed Mars habitat built by robo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3249387/Firm-Apple-s-Spaceship-HQ-reveals-plans-Nasa-backed-3D-printed-Mars-habitat-built-robots.html

[Warpy]

6. Only bigger announcement could be microbial life.

I would be very surprised if Mars didn't have flowing water in deep lava tubes below the surface, if nowhere else.

I'd be equally surprised if it didn't sport microbes.

[RandySF]

7. It's the height of arrogance

to believe that ours is the only life-sustaining planet in the universe. I would be surprised that there is water on Mars, but SOMETHING has NASA excited.

[jberryhill]

11. Yes, but

The likelihood of life existing elsewhere, and the likelihood of it being on any particular planet in our reach are two different things.

It's like trying to find your car keys. You know they are somewhere in the house, just not anywhere you are looking.

[neverforget]

13. Speaking of keys, I lost my keys for 14 months until 1 day I

moved the chair to vacuum and they fell out. I had moved that chair dozens of times too. Of course, I had scoured the house looking for them and had given up that they were gone.

[PersonNumber503602]

38. So would that be like NASA announcing that they discovered water on Earth?

[neverforget]

40. Like announcing they found a warp in the space time

continuum and my keys finally fell back after a bad trip.

[randome]

39. There probably was microbial life in that chair until you vacuumed it away!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]

[neverforget]

41. Sucked into the black hole of the vacuum.

[6000eliot]

12. Bowie knows.

[link:

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[awoke_in_2003]

22. Thanks

I haven't heard that song in two decades. I need to buy all the Bowie stuff again.

[TexasProgresive]

14. I can GROK it, let's share water

A cryptic reference to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

[AngryAmish]

15. ..

[GreatGazoo]

16. Has Nestle bought the rights yet?

[gregcrawford]

17. Or more accurately...

... has Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stolen them yet. Just imagine; a whole NEW planet for Nestle to fuck over!

[Marty McGraw]

23. not if

Tom Selleck in his new geo-stationary orbital Ferrari doesn't drop hose first.

[PoliticAverse]

18. This isn't just a PR stunt for Matt Damon's new movie, right?... n/t

[Marty McGraw]

24. .

[Sunlei]

19. I hope the little rover keeps on exploring!

[LiberalElite]

20. There goes the neighborhood nt

[flamingdem]

21. We're moving in!

Pack up the RV and attach retro rockets.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Announcement is at 11:30 AM (ET) on Monday n/t

[truthisfreedom]

26. I love how they're making us wait.

Generating excitement. Hope it's something significant.

[christx30]

35. It must be something pretty significant.

It's not at 5pm on a Friday, when no one cares. It's right at the beginning of the week's news cycle. They want a LOT of press on this.

[red dog 1]

27. "It's hard to imagine why such bullet-proof evidence was denied for such a long time,

and why those so vigorously denying it never did so by meeting the science, but merely by brushing it away.
Of course, now that it must be acknowledged by all that there is liquid water on the surface of Mars, this starts those denying the validity of the Mars Labeled Release (LR) data down the slippery slope leading to life."
Dr. Gil Levin, Chief Project Scientist on the Viking Labeled Release Experiment.
(This quote is from 2004)

(From "The Curious case of the NASA Crinoid Cover-Up" by Richard C. Hoagland)
http://www.enterprisemission.com/




"NASA Discovers an Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon"
(March 12, 2015)

"NASA announced evidence on Thursday that Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has a saltwater ocean under it's icy surface...The ocean seems to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface, according to new Hubble observations.
Scientists estimate the water is 60 miles thick, which is about 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans....But unlike our salty waters, Ganymede's ocean is buried under 95 miles of ice."
Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/theres-an-underground-ocean-on-jupiters-largest-moon/





"Will Ocean Discovery on Enceladus Spur Life-Hunting Missions to Icy Moons of Saturn, Jupiter?"
(Apriil 4, 2014)

"Astronomers are hoping that the existence of a sub-surface ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus will build momentum for life-hunting missions to the outer solar system.
Researchers announced their discovery of the deep watery ocean on Thursday (4/3/2014) in the journal Science, confirming suspicions by many scientists since 2005, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied geysers of ice and water vapor erupting from Enceladus' south pole.
The discovery vaults Enceladus into the top tier of life-hosting candidates along with Europa, an ice-sheathed moon of Jupiter that also hosts a subterranean ocean."
Read more:
http://www.space.com/25348-enceladus-ocean-europa-life-hunting-missions.html



Since water and water ice has now been proven to exist on several moons of Jupiter and Saturn, discovery of liquid water on Mars would not surprise me.

What WOULD surprise me would be NASA admitting that it has been covering-up evidence proving that the so-called "Face on Mars" is real.

[red dog 1]

28. K&R...Thanks for posting

[restorefreedom]

29. mars will be our outpost

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after earth becomes uninhabitable.

edit for spelling

[MADem]

32. Inhabitable Don't you mean UN-inhabitable?

I realize there's a lot of shit in the air, and crap in the water, on the big blue marble, but it's still inhabitable, more or less.

[restorefreedom]

34. it is getting hard to tell

i meant un

and made the correction

thanks!

[airplaneman]

36. you cant even spell they wont be sending you! n/t.

[NickB79]

37. Realistically, even a horribly polluted Earth will still be easier to live on than Mars

Any colonies we could build on Mars, we could build faster, larger and cheaper here on Earth.

[bikebloke]

30. Buy beachfront property on Mars!

Get in now before the price goes up.

[MADem]

33. JUST IN TIME for THIS!!!!!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. Will the announcement knock Trump off the front pages?

[Sunlei]

43. from asteroid and meteor strikes over the ages, some of those 'rocks' came from strikes on earth

and some of our super volcanos. and 'snowballs' in space.

[Capt. Obvious]

44. NASA finds evidence of flowing water

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars