[dogbyte12]

My guess. Not only did they find water that used to be there, but isn't, but they are going to top that feat, by saying air existed there 2 billion years ago. More exciting breaking news.

[PatrickHenry]

Hot Martian thread. Maybe.

[Lokibob]

I love the pepsi commercial showing the night technician watching the rover go across the mars land scape. He drops off to sleep for a second, and the Martians strip the wheels off the Rover.

[LibWhacker]

Looks like it's going to be an announcement that an ocean once existed on Mars judging from NASA TV's graphic.

[Digger]

What kind of garbage are they going to throw at the sheeple this time?

[Paradox]

Thanks for the thread, I was gettin antsy. I am firewalled out of the live streams on NASA's website.. let go folks!

[mikegi]

I fired up the NasaTV link and it has a title board saying "Opportunity Hits the Beach". Did Opportunity find some long lost Beach Boys tapes???

[chance33_98]

They have discovered that Mars is GAY!

[mabelkitty]

You called this on the last press conference, didn't you?
Come and take your props.

[craig_eddy]

Live feed on the 'Net has no sound???

[KarlInOhio]

NASA News Conference on Mars

I'm impressed. Are they holding it near one of the rovers or where Neil Armstrong landed? < /Sheila Jackson Lee mode>

[Paradox]

Salty Sea Covered Part of Mars: 'Excellent' Site to Search for Past Life from SPACE.COM

OCEANS!

[LibWhacker]

"A lot of water has gone under the bridge . .. "

[NormsRevenge]

FRom Yahoo and AP's Andrew Bridges

NASA: Mars' Surface Had Pool of Water

PASADENA, Calif. - Mars once had a briny pool of standing water on its surface that could have supported life in the now-frozen planet's distant past, NASA (news - web sites) scientists said Tuesday.

Scientists announced earlier this month that the Opportunity rover found evidence of water long ago on Mars, but it was unclear whether the water was underground or on the surface. The new findings suggest there was a pool of saltwater at least two inches deep.

A rocky outcropping examined by the rover had ripple patterns and concentrations of salt — considered telltale signs that the rock formed in standing water.

The findings add to the growing body of evidence that the Red Planet was once was a warmer and wetter place that may have been conducive to life.

"We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars," said Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres, the mission's main scientist.

Although Squyres referred to the water as a sea, scientists said it was not clear how big the body of water might have been or whether it was a permanent fixture. Instead, the site could have been a desert basin or salt flat that periodically flooded with water.

The evidence also does not indicate when water covered the broad and flat region where Opportunity landed, called Meridiani Planum, or for how long. Nor does it indicate if any organisms actually lived on Mars.

[mikegi]

If Mars had oceans, where's the water now? Is it frozen at the poles, captured in rocks, etc? Also, how much warmer must Mars have been to support an ocean? How did it first gain the warmth then lose it???

[b4its2late]

News conference? How'd they get everyone up there so fast? ;-)

[Redbob]

"NASA News Conference on Mars"

They're holding a news conference on Mars?
How many reporters will actually be there?