We found something amazing on Mars

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The exciting results are coming from an instrument in the rover called SAM. "We're getting data from SAM as we sit here and speak, and the data looks really interesting," John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the rover mission, says during my visit last week to his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. That's where data from SAM first arrive on Earth. "The science team is busily chewing away on it as it comes down," says Grotzinger.

 

SAM is a kind of miniature chemistry lab. Put a sample of Martian soil or rock or even air inside SAM, and it will tell you what the sample is made of.

http://m.npr.org/news/front/165513016

i'm guessing they found traces of past microbial life on mars. if that's not it, it better be the next boc album under some soil. what do you think they found?

lol boc boc boc

Prothean ruins.

/neeeeeeerd

  On 11/20/2012 at 11:14 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Prothean ruins.

 

/neeeeeeerd

Martian Cat shit

I'm a bit of a rockhound so I'm interested to see what this is. One of the last two rovers found a spot of relatively pure silica a few years ago, and it would be exciting for me if it's something of the like - a hydrothermal deposit or something.

However, Curiosity's mission is primarily focused on sedimentary deposits. A big find would be a biosignature of some kind.

it says an "earth shaking" find...

it better be good.

also, Aliens.

maybe it's the same cellular organisms that gave birth to us, the ones that drove a meteorite from mars to earth...

a TV transmitting "Never Gonna Give You Up" left by a Russian rover

old coke can

an old photo of the daughter of the last dictator who ruled Mars before the Cataclysm

an iPad 17

  On 11/20/2012 at 11:36 PM, BCM said:

old coke can

at which point Curiosity becomes self-aware and stages a performance of The Gods Must Be Crazy for JPL

a Nan's bus pass who's been missing and presumed dead since 1955.

"So why doesn't Grotzinger want to share his exciting news? The main reason is caution. Grotzinger and his team were almost stung once before. When SAM analyzed an air sample, it looked like there was methane in it, and at least here on Earth, some methane comes from living organisms.

But Grotzinger says they held up announcing the finding because they wanted to be sure they were measuring Martian air, and not air brought along from the rover's launchpad at Cape Canaveral."

So last time this happened someone played a prank on old man Grotzinger and he thought he'd found martian farts?

This time he wants to be sure that the the pungent stuff he's hoarding for himself is infact, martian poo.

A Mars bar.

yea but wil it CURE CANSER?!derrp

Earth's missing socks

  On 11/20/2012 at 11:50 PM, Gocab said:

A Mars bar.

A Roy Chubby Brown DVD box set.

they found maximus and sup coitus-ing

nazi bomber

marzipan!