NASA Is About To Make A ‘Major’ Announcement About Mars
NASA wants to talk to us about Mars, and that can mean only one thing. Aliens.
Really though, people are on the edge of their proverbial seats after the space agency tweeted a teaser suggesting that they could be making a major announcement at a press conference later today.
Mars mystery solved? Find out Monday at 11:30am ET at a live briefing on NASA TV: http://t.co/YYpCP6fv3Y Q? #askNASA pic.twitter.com/Bm35D6DZho
— NASA (@NASA) September 25, 2015
Will it really be aliens? Probably not, but it hasn’t stopped some from speculating.
NASA Will Announce A Major #Mars Discovery On Monday: http://t.co/ePgwVgKkmn #Space pic.twitter.com/FBgLisUEEB
— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) September 26, 2015
? RT @Cmdr_Hadfield @NASA's announcing a "major Mars science finding" on Monday. pic.twitter.com/mhPtxF4rUF
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) September 26, 2015
A more realistic discovery could be liquid water. This theory gained momentum after it was announced that Lujendra Ojha would be speaking at the press conference. The grad student at Georgia Tech is credited with ‘accidentally’ discovering the first major evidence that moving water existed on Mars when studying images of the planet’s surface back in 2011.
Why is liquid water so significant?
Frozen water has already been confirmed at the poles and belt glaciers on Mars. Liquid water could lead us to larger streams, which in turn could sustain life.
Chris Carberry, executive director of Explore Mars, told the Boston Herald.
“It implies that there is some sort of heat source keeping the water liquefied and here on Earth, whenever you have heat and water, 100 percent of the time you have life.”
“We have no idea if that holds true on Mars, we don’t know if there is life on Mars or if there ever has been — but it would certainly be another piece of evidence.”