NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved on sept 28th

The specific reason why I have trouble containing my sphincters over this announcement is because the lunatic fringe (yes, the ones even worse than us) have been squawking about September 23 this and September 23 that; well the spiel is now that the 23rd wasn't meant to be the be-all, end-all date, but that the period between the 23rd and the 28th would be "filled with change and tribulations".

Fair enough, I'll bite. So if recent events among the lines of inhabitants of a British Colombia town claiming Bigfoot lives nearby and an Irishwoman catching a poltergeist on film as it trashes her kitchen, I believe that the veil between the world of the living and the world of the unseen has weakened. Call it gamma rays hitting our planet or whatever tickles your fancy. But too much crap coming together at one point, the crux being the Pope meeting with the President, to discount as mere coincidence.

I figure it's talk of water on Mars again. One source alluding to that:

NASA is set to release details of a major scientific finding on Monday and speculation points towards signs of flowing water on Mars. So far, the American space agency hasn’t revealed any other details other than the finding is related to its ongoing exploration of Mars.

Source
"Is NASA about to announce it has discovered flowing water on Mars?"

Older source on "Could water be flowing on Mars?" See here

Whether someone sees that as a big deal, is up to them. Other than this announcement, which it may be and will be significant but seemingly nothing too new as it's been talked of, not going to get my hopes up.

a reply to: Nyiah

Lol, way to jump to a conclusion there bud.

so this thread is about the announcement of NASA's Mars Mystery Solved, or the speculations of the announcement?

maybe something cookie like, there was once life on Mars, and it started from life on earth!

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Nyiah

Lol, way to jump to a conclusion there bud.

Oh, do explain why. If (possible) confirmation of flowing water on Mars doesn't get people hot & bothered, what will? Confirmation of life, obviously, durr. What the Instant Gratification crowd bemoaning the aforementioned announcement aren't going to be happy about is anything that doesn't completely shatter their little worlds & therefore make the exploration "worthwhile", such as definitive life proof.

Since its Nasa we are talking about, I'm guessing that the announcement is that yes, Mars is indeed a planet.

originally posted by: odzeandennz
so this thread is about the announcement of NASA's Mars Mystery Solved, or the speculations of the announcement?

maybe something cookie like, there was once life on Mars, and it started from life on earth!

Well I was mostly interested in understanding what is THE mystery, and since it's an announcement about an announcement speculations are a given.

originally posted by: wildespace
This deflated and disinterested attitude from the general public (and as show in this thread) is exactly why NASA and other space/science agencies have to ramp up their discoveries and their progress of knowledge about the world and the universe we live in as "a mystery solved".

After so many "just rocks" is hard to blame the public for being disinterested. I personally blame the sensationalism of TV shows that exxagerating everything for the sake of entertainment are going to detract from the importance of any relevant scientific finding that isn't "little green men" or any other conspiracy.

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

It's only disappointing to ignorant fools who keep expecting NASA to announce they've found little green men

Perhaps release of the movie Martian starring Matt Damon! They took a lot of help from NASA. I doubt they will be 'revealing' anything with all this suspense date. Its kinda like the earthquake scare before release of the movie San Andreas.

originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: Wide-Eyes

It's only disappointing to ignorant fools who keep expecting NASA to announce they've found little green men

Exactly , what fools everybody knows that Mars has little red men Venus has the green ones.

The announcement is about a new corporate agreement: NASA finds water on Mars. NASA sells Mars to Nestle as a bottling plant??.

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originally posted by: ArMaP
It looks like Lujendra Ojha has been studying those dark lines that look like liquid flows, so it could be related to that.

I wouldn't consider that as "one for the History books". They might, but I wouldn't. But you're probably right.

a reply to: Okeyd57

I suppose it depends on what creates those dark lines.

originally posted by: Mastronaut
I didn't see this posted yet and with keywords like "september 28th" you can imagine how hard it could be finding out if it's already posted somewhere

Seems NASA is going to announce something about Mars mystery

(Nature Geoscience has Embargoed Details until 11 a.m. EDT Sept. 28)

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.

News conference participants will be:

· Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters

· Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters

· Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta

· Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California and the Georgia Institute of Technology

· Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) at the University of Arizona in Tucson

So, life was found? The reason for the demise of the planet are confirmed? or something less mundane and into the realm of pseudo-science?
Anyone heard rumors about this?

I always thought mars was very earth like and had a civilazation a couple billion years ago and as the core cooled over time the planet died and so did the ppl. Now everything Is 99.9% covered in dirt.the anomlies we see are the .1% that Isnt.Back then they probly looked at earth as we look at venus now. But eventually earth was habitable and partially seeded from astroids. A billion years from nowvearth will look like mars does now and there will be people from venus announcing how they may have found water flows on that next planet over whatever they name earth to be.

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Mastronaut

Just like every other 'announcement', it will be disappointing.

ATS: It's not a an alien civilization, what a waste of time.

NASA: It's a significant scientific finding, adding to a progression of findings allowing us to better understand the history of Mars.

Science, especially space science, is inherently slow and seemingly mundane. But you gotta look at the big picture.