Mars Mystery: What HAS Curiosity Discovered?

[Locutus]

Science isn't something that just happens overnight. It takes many measurements, oodles of analysis, re-testing and re-analysis before any groundbreaking announcement can be made.

So, on the surface of Mars, inside Gale Crater on a plain called Aeolis Palus, our tenacious six-wheeled Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is doing cutting-edge laboratory work on an alien world and mission scientists are itching to announce a "historic" discovery.

"This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," John Grotzinger, lead scientist of the MSL mission, said in an interview with NPR.

But what is he referring to and why all the secrecy?


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Mars Mystery: What HAS Curiosity Discovered? : Discovery News

 

[darkbeaver]

A discarded condom with lizard DNA.

 

[coldstream]

Sounds like we'll have to get some 'boots on the ground' to clear up all the mystery.

 

[WLDB]

Hopefully something interesting. Bacteria whether alive or dead would be interesting.

 

[Praxius]

Another rock, but with spots.

 

[damngrumpy]

It shows that those who claim space is a waste of money miss the relevant points in life.
The space race brought many new inventions we use today without thinking twice about.
This new discovery if it lives up to it billing may well inspire a new round of exploration
that in turn will advance civilization like the ones before.

 

[darkbeaver]

A hub cap off a 53 Studebaker?

It shows that those who claim space is a waste of money miss the relevant points in life.
The space race brought many new inventions we use today without thinking twice about.
This new discovery if it lives up to it billing may well inspire a new round of exploration
that in turn will advance civilization like the ones before.

There has been no advance in civilization for a period in excess of two thousand years. Something else entirely has been advanced instead.