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By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
A big "OMG" moment for space enthusiasts may be coming!
We were certainly excited to read on NPR's website that the Curiosity rover may have discovered something "really interesting." John Grotzinger, principal investigator for the Curiosity rover mission, revealed to NPR that "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good."
The data in question come from soil that was analyzed by an instrument suite on the rover called SAM, the Sample Analysis at Mars. This chemistry set is equipped to look for compounds of carbon, such as methane, as well as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. These would suggest at least the possibility that life could have once existed there.
But Grotzinger would not tell NPR exactly what about the latest results could be so "earthshaking" (should we say "Mars-shaking"?). And it will be several weeks before the public may know anything further about the matter, NPR reported. The scientists don't want to say anything prematurely, before they're sure they know what they're seeing.
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory spokesman Guy Webster told CNN that the science team is not ready to discuss the soil inspection from SAM and that the same policy applied to past results from the Curiosity mission.
"The scientists want to gain confidence in the findings before taking them outside of the science team. As for history books, the whole mission is for the history books," he wrote in an e-mail. "John was excited about the quality and range of information coming in from SAM during the day a reporter happened to be sitting in John's office last week. He has been similarly excited by results at other points during the mission so far."
Curiosity has been roaming Mars since its spectacular landing August 6, which involved a supersonic parachute and a sky crane. It weighs nearly 2,000 pounds and has 17 cameras on board. With the rover's sophisticated instruments, the $2.5 billion mission is exploring Mars in ways that no manmade probe has ever been able to before.
The rover landed in a place called Gale Crater, which may have once contained water. In fact, during its first couple of months of exploration, Curiosity found evidence of ancient water, based on rock formations that appeared to have formed in the presence of water.
For several weeks, Curiosity was parked at a place called Rocknest, where it scooped up soil samples and discovered shiny objects.
On November 16, the rover started driving again, NASA said. Currently it's on its way to a location called Point Lake. It moved 83 feet eastward Sunday.
Meanwhile, space fans have taken to Twitter to post humorous speculations about the rover's discoveries using the hashtag #CuriosityFindings. @treelobsters writes, "That red dust? Actually paprika." @jkfecke adds, "Face on Mars is huge statue of Justin Bieber." And particularly groundbreaking would be, as @TechyDad writes, "A giant pile of unmatched socks that disappeared from the Earth's washing machines."
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Well, here is an apparently interesting true story that could be relate to the above. A guy named Osvaldo Navarrete back in 2000 predicted something like this. ---------- As it turns out, a similar time traveler emerged in South America in the year 2000.
According to the Crónica newspaper of Concepción (Chile) a man named Osvaldo Navarrete had arrived from our near future – the year 2012, to be exact. According to Navarrete’s testimony, he had been one of several subjects of a military experiment in time travel designed to return to the year 2000. Interviewed by journalist Richard Sierra, Navarrete made some predictions about the coming ten years, stating that a disaster would sweep the planet and have “terrible consequences for mankind.”
The time traveler informed the journalist that in the year 2012, the United States was governed by a black president, and that this head of state would inform the people of the discovery of vestiges of ancient intelligent life on Mars following the arrival of a space probe. Writing in mid-October 2012, we can say that the time traveler was on the money. President Obama, however, has made no such disclosure yet). The result of this announcement, stated Navarrete, would be worldwide unrest. Discovery of the Marian ur-civilization would prompt the great powers to work jointly against “an alleged alien attack”, adding to the worldwide social and political crises.
Chrononaut Navarrete was not forthcoming about the way in which he crossed the unsoundable gulf of time from 2012 to 2000. Did he appear in a baroque time machine like Rod Taylor in George Pal’s legendary The Time Traveler, or naked and disoriented in an alleyway like Michael Biehn in The Terminator? The question remains unanswered, and his whereabouts unknown. The last available information on this intriguing person is that he claimed to be “eluding pursuit”, vanishing after making a statement to a radio station.
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Hey, wait just a darn minute here.... that desert looks jut like Mojave.... is NASA faking Mars just like they faked the moon landing back in '69 inside their tin-foil and paper-mache lunar 'lander'??
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/Mars.htm
I read about half of the comments before my eyes started hurting. I noticed it went from a lot of intense debate to people making silly comments. I think some people have forgotten that science is about asking questions and keeping an open mind, believing that anything is possible. As for people stuck on their religious beliefs, stop telling people to prove that a god does not exist. Nothing is considered absolutely true until proven absolutely true. We don't try to prove things untrue, we try to prove things true to better understand the universe.
If it's "one for the history books" it better be a DNA sequence of some sort.
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Gee I hope they found my keys,It had my rewards card attached and the new fob & key cost $112
I'm certainly not against space exploration but this shows me that the money in our current world-wide banking system based on debt and borrowing is redundant !!!!!!!!!! JUST PRINT IT for goodness sakes and put it into circulation without an annual interest charge on it. Interest payable TO WHO ??????
They found the Prothean archives
This is NASA's version of a Black Friday ad. It goes like this: The public is teased to show up at the doors at the proper time and place. The line goes around the block as arguments and fights break out. Finally, the doors swing open and the mob rushes in to find that the secret deal was never in stock to begin with. It was all about getting media attention and having you in the store.
all in the book THE DIMENSION MACHINE
I realy doubt they are going to reinterate that life could exist on Mars, we already know this to be true. I believe it has more to do with finding life does or did exist on Mars. Which would prove that life does exist outside the earth else where in the universe.
This is getting rediculas. Tell us already! Is it what I think it is?
Megatron!!!
What would be ironic is if they found a fragment of a 15 million year old plaque with writing on it that translates as follows:
“We dedicate this launch platform to all of those who have given their lives in the struggle to reach our nearest neighbor, the 3rd planet in our system. It is our hope that someday our kind will walk upon the surface of that world; which has for so long sparked the imaginations of the peoples of this world and given us the hope that we are not alone in this Solar System. It is our hope that the discovery of life on that planet will unite our fractured populations and put an end to our petty perceived differences that have given rise to the global conflagrations which threaten our very surv……………….
an old volkswagon bug that sttill runs...
I think people should talk more about the structures at Cydonia, Mars. When they released the photograph years ago, people said that they saw the image if a face and pyramid structures with 4 and 5 sides. NASA has dismissed these claims and said that the structures are naturally occurring phenomenon, however, closer scrutinization of the triangular structures shows geometric symmetry and provable mathematics on the triangular sides of the structures indicating that they are intelligently designed and very similar to the pyramids on Earth. Closer examination reveals that the way they are laid out on the terrain perfectly aligns with the Pleiades constellation, which is similar to the Giza pyramids that align perfectly to the Orion constellation. Peace and Blessings.
They probably found fossilized microorganisms. This would show evidence of life in other planets permanently debunking the rather childish story of creation. Without Adam and Eve, there is no original sin and therefore no need for Jesus to come and save us all. Of course Christian apologists will generate some feverish and logically unfalsifiable excuse and press it forward with hysterical zeal to reinforce their own denial of reality and to use as a new weapon in their war against civilization.
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this but this has already been taken care of by Genesis 1.1
Man is imperfect. The bible is written by man. Therefor the bible is imperfect.
They found petrified dog dung
Uh, Visara, do you think you could expand on that a little? For example, explain who told you that bases have existed on the moon "for decades"? No point in telling people to "open their minds" when you haven't given us any new stuff to put in there except a baseless (pun intended) statement...
Onlyt a Cover Story Distraction. To bring in Carbon Tax Enslavement - NASA is cloaking Climate Fraud.
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Just a Cover Story Distraction. To bring in Carbon Tax Enslavement - NASA is cloaking Climate Fraud.
Distracting from the Climate fraud of NASA James Hansen, A Mars Mystery is Manufactured.
They found Obama's birth certificate, he's not American, he's a Martian. Quick, someone tell Donald so he can spread the word.
Rason why the Birth Certificate will Newer be Found. Übama, the Reptilian, was hatched by the CIA.
d j jazzy j e ff
The lost episode of the Waltons where grandpa molests John Boy
Curley's gold next to Billy Crystal's Oscar
DB Cooper
I gotta go to bed ...this is rediculous
Ozzy's ninety-nine billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine brain cells
did they find the $50 Billion that Madoff 'lost' in his ponzi scheme?
Nicolas Cage's talent, right next to his hair
an Oliver Stone film that isn't complete c r a p
Big P u s s y
Peter O'Toole sleeping one off
Flight 19
arnold schwarzenegger's a s s ...he finallly got it to Mars
Jerry Garcia's 10th digit
Rush Limbaugh dead...I wish
The US Postal service's profits for the past decade
OMG! a dust
Wilson
Radar's other hand
The Heart of the Ocean that old woman threw off the stern of that boat
the erctions I had everyday until I turned 40..I've really been missing those
casper van dien's career
Jennifer Greys' original nose
Indisputable proof that going to Mars is a complete waste of time
Dick Cheney's heart
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
The guy who played opposite Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies
It's probably just a discarded soda can pulltab that they found – no big deal.
I swear if 7 weeks goes by and all they tell us is they found material that might have supported life was found, I am gonna smash my head with a hammer. I think it's sort of accepted that we know there are probably materials there that could have supported life at some point. That material is found all over the galaxy.
Tupac's killer
Waldo's bones next to his striped hat
Al Capone's gold...where was Geraldo Rivera?
The hair from the top of Donald Trump's head
proof that Michael Jackson had normal relationships with women
My guess is that they found what may be evidence of DNA with the SAM analyzer. Too bad there isn't a thermal cycler aboard!
Michael Jackson's other white glove
the gerbil they pulled out of Richard Gere's fanny
James Camerons' humility
evidence that global warming is "just a cycle"
Finally!!! They found my wife's car keys
A version of the bible that isn't contradictory nonsense...oh no...they didn't find that...doesn't exist
that bag of coke I lost at Jimmy' Seaside Bar and Grille in 1986
A Star Wars trilogy prequel tha doesn't s u c k
evidence that exonerates OJ Simpson
Howard Stern"s p e n i s
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
They just found out they still on time for the Martian Black Friday Specials.
Fox News' integrity
Glenn Beck's brain
When this turns out to be fossil remains of ancient life, will the god believers finally go away...sort of like the Republicans after Romney got pounded? please
Darn!! They just found out that they did not land in Mars but in Easter Island.
They found twinkies.
They just found a martian parking ticket on top of the camera.
OH ..OH !!! They found a bag with thousands of Mitt Romney ballots
Beginning to sound like Donald Trump, you have found something very very interesting!!! Obamas Birth Cert?
The United States never landed on the moon–what a big joke played on the United states tax payer.
They found oil.
II wish I had read this article earlier because I know I'm not the first person to say "Jimmy Hoffa"....
Did they find Elvis?
Unobtanium. That's it !
they have found fossil remains that indicate water at one time on the planet. If they had found water, they promised Mr. Obama to call them, maybe
Whatever they found ,somewhere,someone,somehow is figuring out how to sell it to some unsuspecting SUCKER
They found a McDonalds hamburger bag.
Wonder what they found? I bet it was a Starbucks coffee shop.
They found the body of Jimmy Hoffa !
They found Richard Nixon's missing tapes? David Bowie's business card? The ABC copy of the second showing of "Turn On?"
I really think they found evidence of carbon-based life – and this time there is no hiding it from us. I wonder if they will tell us before December 21 or (if we are still here) after December 21.
Earth Hour Campaign – Burson-Marsteller has discovered that Mars is also Cooling ?
Maybe they found Laika.
Prothean beacon? Prothean beacon.
They found a McDonald's!
Found all the ingredients for life? Not quite. But they did find in abundance all the ingredients to make Twinkies.
"Mars has dirt and we can analyze it!" is probably all it is. Unless they tell us they found life for sure, found a fossil for sure, or found Elvis doing shows 3 nights a week in the corner of the crater, then it's not news and not earthshaking to be sure.
I agree. We already know that water is present. We find amino acids in meteorites. We know there are basic organic compounds forming in interstellar dust clouds. Any truly BIG news can only be that we have found unequivocal evidence for life, either past or present. Micro-fossils, DNA or RNA signatures, etc.
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