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Mars rover team may reveal major discovery
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Thursday November 22, 2012 11:02:02 AM,
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Mars rover sends back human voice recording
In spoken words radioed to the Mars rover Curiosity and then back
to NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) on Earth, NASA Administrator
Charles Bolden congratulated NASA employees and the agency's
commercial and government partners on the successful landing of
Curiosity earlier this month, reported Xinhua.
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Curiosity makes maiden move on Mars
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Washington:
The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive
discovery, but NASA scientists are keeping it under wraps to
double-check the spacecraft's calculations, RIA Novosti reported.
Chief mission scientist John Grotzinger told National Public Radio
that the possible discovery, gleaned from a sample of Martian soil
collected by the six-wheeled vehicle, will "be one for the history
books". "It's looking really good," he said.
But Grotzinger, a geologist at the prestigious California
Institute of Technology, added that NASA scientists are taking
every precaution to verify the data collected by Curiosity, which
was launched late last year and landed on Mars in August.
The news follows on the heels of what scientists earlier thought
was the discovery of methane - typically a sign of living
organisms - on Mars, Grotzinger said, only to determine later that
the air likely accompanied the spacecraft from its Florida
Launchpad.
He added that NASA would convene a press conference in early
December to reveal the results of Curiosity's research.
Scientists, meanwhile, have let their imaginations run wild as to
what Curiosity might beam back to earth.
"If it's going in the history books, organic material is what I
expect," Peter Smith, a University of Arizona researcher who
served on a 2008 Mars mission for the Phoenix Lander, told online
tech website Wired.
"It may be just a hint, but even a hint would be exciting," he
added.
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