14 DAY TRIAL // This Monday, September 28, at precisely 11:30 a.m. EDT / 3:30 p.m. UTC, NASA is poised to announce what it describes as a major Mars finding. The agency will make the announcement during a conference at the James Web Auditorium at the NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The event will be attended by Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters, Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, and Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Mary Beth Wilhelm of the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field and the Georgia Institute of Technology, together with Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, will also be present.
The conference will be broadcasted live on NASA TV, and members of the public are welcome to ask questions via social media using the hashtag #AskNASA.
The space agency is being very secretive about what this conference is all about. So far, it's only promised that the researchers spearheading the event will detail a major scientific finding from NASA's ongoing Mars exploration program. There are no details about what this finding might be.
Still, word has it that NASA plans to announce the discovery of traces of liquid water on the surface of the Red Planet. If this is really the case, this would mean Mars might not be as hostile to life as we think it to be. Rather, it could turn out to be a life-friendly orb.
The conference will start in about an hour, so keep an eye on this page for updates.
Update: NASA announces the discovery of liquid water on Mars.
