NASA says it will reveal a "major science finding" from its exploration of Mars on Monday in a press conference at its Washington, D.C. headquarters.
Participating in the news conference will be Jim Green, NASA director of planetary science; Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program; Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. and the Georgia Institute of Technology and Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Many people are likely already thinking of little green men since NASA's tantalizing news release, "
NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved."
The revelation will more likely deal with water on the Red Planet, since Ojha, Wilhelm and McEwen are among the authors of a paper asserting that images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the existence of flowing water on the planet's surface.
Such a discovery could have an important impact on NASA's quest to send a manned mission to Mars by the 2030s.
