Nebraska Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 lol boc boc boc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Prothean ruins. /neeeeeeerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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baph Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Prothean ruins. /neeeeeeerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Martian Cat shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilwx Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 it says an "earth shaking" find... it better be good. also, Aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 maybe it's the same cellular organisms that gave birth to us, the ones that drove a meteorite from mars to earth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 a TV transmitting "Never Gonna Give You Up" left by a Russian rover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 old coke can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 an old photo of the daughter of the last dictator who ruled Mars before the Cataclysm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRiP Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 an iPad 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 old coke can at which point Curiosity becomes self-aware and stages a performance of The Gods Must Be Crazy for JPL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 a Nan's bus pass who's been missing and presumed dead since 1955. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJW Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 "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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Silent Member Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 A Mars bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 yea but wil it CURE CANSER?!derrp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ambermonk Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 A Mars bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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