By Mark Young, SouthFloridaReporter.com Managing Editor, Sept. 27, 2015 – In a little more than 25-hours from now, NASA will be holding a news conference to announce, well, we’re not exactly sure. All that’s known is that it will be a “major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars.”
Chatter on many of the media and scientific websites believe it will be about ‘recurring slope lineae’ – in a nutshell – the discovery of water.
The speculation is based upon two of the attendees at the news conference – Alfred McEwen and Lujendra Ojha. McEwen recently published a study on slope activity in Mars’s Gale crater. Ojha, has collaborated with McEwen and has, also, studied the possible of water activity on Mars.
The event will be broadcast live, Monday, on NASA Television and the agency’s website, starting at 11:3 0a.m.
News conference participants will be:
· Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters
· Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters
· Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta
· Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California and the Georgia Institute of Technology
· Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) at the University of Arizona in Tucson
