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NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved

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Dust.
That's what the press release says:
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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Source: NASA.

Speculation is that this concerns evidence for water on Mars (given the background of some of the panel members for this event).
 
Is it the face?

It's the face, isn't it?
Plate-F_C.jpg
 
They just can't stand to allow a popular story about life outside the atmosphere. without trying to undermine the science. First Azimov, now poor Andy Wier, damn you rotating Mercury! :(
 
Will there one day be Mars water to buy? Hideously expensive Arean Dihydrogen Monoxide for hipsters to make rosehip tea with or smoke bongs through.
 
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Update:
Traces of tsunamis on Mars are the newest clues yet that the Red Planet once had oceans, which could have supported life, researchers said.

These killer waves might have been triggered by giant meteor impacts, scientists added.

Although the surface of Mars is now cold and dry, there is a great deal of evidence suggesting thatan ocean's worth of water covered the Red Planet billions of years ago. Since life is found on Earth virtually wherever there is liquid water, some researchers have suggested that life might have evolved on Mars when the planet was wet. Life could survive there even now, hidden underground, some scientists have said.

Still, there remains much debate over the existence and extent of ancient seas on Mars. For example, until now, scientists lacked concrete evidence of ancient shorelines cut by waves on the Red Planet. [The Search for Water on Mars in Pictures]

But new thermal images of the northern plains of Mars reveal what may be ancient scars left by two mega tsunamis about 3.4 billion years ago, researchers said. That was back when the Red Planet may have possessed a cold, salty, icy ocean.

"Our work provides definitive evidence for the presence of large and long-lived oceans on Mars," study co-author Alberto Fairén, a planetary scientist at the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid and Cornell University in New York, told Space.com.
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Mega Tsunamis Rocked Mars Oceans Billions of Years Ago
 
Mars Express radar data indicates a 20km wide subglacial lake of water in the southern polar region of Mars.
The presence of liquid water at the base of the martian polar caps has long been suspected but not observed. We surveyed the Planum Australe region using the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) instrument, a low-frequency radar on the Mars Express spacecraft. Radar profiles collected between May 2012 and December 2015 contain evidence of liquid water trapped below the ice of the South Polar Layered Deposits. Anomalously bright subsurface reflections are evident within a well-defined, 20-kilometer-wide zone centered at 193°E, 81°S, which is surrounded by much less reflective areas. Quantitative analysis of the radar signals shows that this bright feature has high relative dielectric permittivity (>15), matching that of water-bearing materials. We interpret this feature as a stable body of liquid water on Mars.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.aar7268

Popular Mechanics article.
 
Does anyone give a shit?

Our own planet is a plastic filled toilet and we are looking at this why?
 
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