NASA to Make Big Announcement On 'Mars Mystery Solved' September 28th
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Subject: NASA to Make Big Announcement On 'Mars Mystery Solved' September 28th Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:09 pm
NASA to Make Big Announcement On 'Mars Mystery Solved' September 28th
Published on Sep 25, 2015
www.undergroundworldnews.com
NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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Subject: Re: NASA to Make Big Announcement On 'Mars Mystery Solved' September 28th Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:22 pm
Hmmmm, probably going to announce the little guy below never made it home after all. Or . . . . just maybe he did. Who wants to bet NASA found evidence of ET on Mars? As Richard Hoagland is fond of saying, "stay tuned!"
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Subject: 'Mars mystery solved' Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:46 am
'Mars mystery solved': Nasa prompts speculation with promise of major announcement
Conjecture over US space agency's planned announcement focuses on possibility of water on the Red Planet
File handout image of the Phoenix Mars Lander Nasa (via Getty) Nasa is making big promises for Monday, saying it will reveal the answer to a major mystery about Mars.
The US space agency said it would be announcing "a major science finding" regarding the Red Planet at 11:30am EDT (4.30pm in the UK) on the 28 September, to be broadcast live on its website.
There is much speculation that the mystery to be addressed is the phenomena known as 'recurring slope lineae', the dark tendrils observed on the planet surface during warm seasons, which it is speculated is evidence of water.
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Among those speaking at the briefing will be Alfred McEwen from the University of Arizona in Tucson, who in July published a study on slope activity in Mars's Gale crater, and Lujendra Ojha, a PhD candidate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who has collaborated with McEwen and has also studied the possible water activity on Mars.
Science and technology website Inverse.com highlighted Ojha as "the odd-person out at the news conference", pointing out that it was Ojha's undergraduate research that helped identify the recurring slope lineae.
The existence of water would be significant as it would mean there was a prospect of life on Mars.
Also speaking will be Nasa heavy-weights Jim Green, the agency's director of planetary science; Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Programme; and Mary Beth Wilhelm from NASA’s Ames Research Centre.
Of course, another possibility, and one large parts of the internet is hoping for, is the announcement will be about aliens:
Subject: Stonehenge On Mars: Stone Formation On the Red Planet Resembles the Iconic Pagan Site Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:51 am
Stonehenge On Mars: Stone Formation On the Red Planet Resembles the Iconic Pagan Site
Published on Sep 25, 2015
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From floating spoons and coffins to crabs and pyramids, alien hunters are often reporting strange structures in images beamed back from the surface of Mars.
Now, the latest 'discovery' seen using high-resolution images of the Martian surface, a mysterious circle of stones have been spotted on top of a raised mound on the planet.
Dubbed 'Marshenge', alien enthusiasts have been comparing it to the famous stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
Subject: Mars 'mystery solved': has Nasa found water flowing on the Red Planet? Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:35 am
Mars 'mystery solved': has Nasa found water flowing on the Red Planet?
Has Nasa found life on Mars? Speculation mounts ahead of press conference to unveil "a major science finding"
Nasa has said it will be announcing "Mars mystery solved" Photo: GETTY
By Emily Gosden 12:35PM BST 27 Sep 2015
Nasa is preparing to unveil a "major science finding" from its Mars exploration programme, amid speculation it could have found water flowing on the Red Planet.
The space agency has scheduled a press conference for Monday, in which it promises to announce a "Mars Mystery Solved".
While many are hoping for a discovery of alien life, the leading theory among those who follow research into Mars is an announcement of the presence of liquid water.
The speculation has been driven by Nasa's disclosure that Lujendra Ojha, a PhD candidate who discovered possible signs of water as a 21-year-old undergraduate student in 2011, will be speaking as part of the announcement.
Scientists have long known that there is frozen water at the poles of Mars, but have yet to find it in liquid form.
Any such discovery would raise the chances of life being able to be sustained on the Red Planet, as all life on Earth requires water.
Mr Ojha’s initial discovery involved using computer editing to review images of a crater on Mars, which had gullies that were thought to be remnants of historical water activity on the planet.
As part of the work he by 'accident' discovered changes in the appearance of the slope of the crater, with “finger-like” features that scientists said could be liquid, briny water.
Such a discovery could pave the way for the search for life on the Red Planet, which Mr Ojha described at the time as “the holy grail of science”.
Doug McCuistion, former head of NASA’s Mars program, said a discovery of free-flowing water would be “game-changing”.
He told the Boston Herald: “If they’re announcing that they’ve found easily accessible, freely flowing liquid water under the surface — which is one of the theories we’ve been hearing for years and years — that has massive implications both for the potential for life on that planet and sustainability of humans.”
Oxygen and water supplies are major challenges to putting man on Mars – so finding water is already there could significantly “lighten the load” of any manned mission, he said.
Nasa’s Mars rover, Curiosity, has been exploring the Gale Crater on the planet since 2012 and found tantalising clues of possible life.
In December it discovered 'burps' of methane, which Nasa scientists said could indicate “life or evidence of ancient methane trapped which could show ancient life”.
Nasa's Curiosity Rover has been on Mars since 2012 Photo: JPL-Caltech/NASA/EPA Most methane on Earth is produced as a waste gas by living organisms and scientists suggested the gas encountered on Mars could be from bacteria.
If that were confirmed it would be the first evidence of life outside Earth.
Earlier this year the Mars rover also found calcium perchlorate – a type of salt – in the soil, suggesting that salty liquid water could be present close to the planet’s surface.
Calcium perchlorate lowers the temperature at which water freezes, which could allow it to remain in liquid form even on Mars, where temperatures drop to -125 C in winter.
The salt also absorbs water from the atmosphere, dragging it down into the surface.
Tiny creatures have been discovered on Earth that can live entirely on brine, without oxygen, raising the possibility that a briny liquid on Mars could be home to some sort of primitive alien life-form.
The question of life on Mars could finally be answered by a new rover from the European Space Agency that is due to land on Mars in early 2019 and will be equipped with a two-metre drill and the ability to detect biomarkers of life.
The latest research is due to be published at 4pm today in the journal Nature Geoscience, followed by a Nasa press conference at the space agency’s headquarters in Washington.
Subject: HUGE! NASA Scientists Have Discovered Flowing Water On Mars Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:01 am
HUGE! NASA Scientists Have Discovered Flowing Water On Mars
Published on Sep 28, 2015
www.undergroundworldnews.com The space agency will gather a host of experts to its headquarters in Washington for a briefing where it promises to announce it has solved a huge mystery surrounding the Red Planet.
NASA's previous announcements have revealed groundbreaking findings, such as that in July of the discovery of Earth-life planet Kepler-452b, outside of the Solar System.
Experts at this event, which is set to take place at 5.30pm GMT, include Jim Green, the director of planetary science at NASA and Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program.
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