Opportunity Does it Again: “Major” Discovery Announcement Tomorrow

it's a starbucks isn't it........

artifacts would be cool.

hieroglyphics!

AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! My worst fears realized!!!

Not green please, I hope they are blue because that would be hAwt!!!

a giant underground chamber with a slumbering creature that appears to have tentacles growing out of his face.

When did NASA go and make itself interesting again? Hot damn!

i got the inside info here is the pic

I bet. AVP

dude, they found bigfoot, fo'real yo

NASA has found evidence that proves we're all Martians. We frelled Mars over, and the move to earth traumitized our civilisation so badly that we lost all memory and record that we were ever Martians.

And now we're frelling Earth over in exactly the same way.

Perhaps our species is destined to spend the rest of its days bouncing back and forth between the planets...

styrofoam cups

Enough! Enough!

Take it seriously folks! Come on! This is a discovery of the ages we're talking about here!

Besides, everyone knows that Opportunity found Jimmy Hoffa's body....

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/opportunity_sea_040323.html

...and here it is.

so uhh....shouldn't they be having the press conference right now?

I think they found an empty McDonald's french fry container.

yes, they are and you can watch it here.

im watching nasa tv now.

looks like they will just be explaning the last press release.

and that is, confirmation of evidence by an expert panel of scientists not associated with the project that rover Opportunity did discover evidence of liquid water was prevalent in the meridiania plain.

this is lame. you already told us there was water, NASA. stop getting our hopes up.

I was just watching a bit of the feed. It seems they have somehow proved that the water was capable of supporting life. There may be more to it than that, but that was all I could get out of it. I would have thought water supporting life was kinda obvious from the fact it was water... oh well.

Well, there's "water," then there's "a whole fucking mess-ton of liquid salt water." To the average person on the street, the difference may not mean much, but in terms of planetary geology, it's quite huge.