NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for
the history books," but we'll have to wait a few weeks to learn
what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest. The
discovery was made by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars
instrument, NPR reported today (Nov. 20). SAM is the rover's
onboard chemistry lab, and it's capable of identifying organic
compounds — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we
know it. SAM apparently spotted something interesting in a soil
sample Curiosity's huge robotic arm delivered to the instrument
recently. "This data is gonna be one for the history books,"
Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in
Pasadena, told NPR. "It's looking really good."The Curiosity
Rover would have picked up more info but its path was blocked by
a large monolith...bah dum baaaaah! Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Is it the "Whitey Tape"? Sorry still in Dean Chambers mode.