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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:06:47 -0700
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From: Paul Anderson 
Subject: TMP News: Special Report -  
NASA to Announce Evidence of Water on Mars



TMP NEWS
The E-News Service of The Millennium Project

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June 21, 2000

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SPECIAL REPORT:

NASA TO ANNOUNCE EVIDENCE OF WATER ON MARS


The internet has been rife with rumours the past couple of days that NASA
was going to be making a major announcement next week regarding Mars
and the Mars Global Surveyor space probe. The reports have essentially
been confirmed; it appears the announcement - to be made tomorrow,
June 22 at an 11:00 am EDT press conference (previously scheduled for
June 29) concerns the discovery of areas on the surface of Mars, focusing
on the Valles Marineris rift valley, where liquid water (apparently) currently
exists, even if only seasonally, as brine seepage or springs from below,
which then ponds on the surface. This news of course has exciting and
direct implications for the search for possible life on Mars, past or present.
Specific details will be released in tomorrow's conference.

In a possibly related note, more high resolution Mars Global Surveyor images
from the new 20,000 photo archive released very recently by NASA have
been found, by various researchers, to show similar kinds of unusual dark
"blotches" and spots in the bottoms of some craters and elsewhere (at least
some of which as described on NASA's MSSS web site do not initially appear
to be sand dunes or other known common geological features, ie the "leopard
skin" and "mars bushes" reported in previous TMP News updates). Could any
of these features possibly be biological in nature, in light of these new water
related discoveries?
 

Links to current pertinent articles and latest NASA press release below:



http://www.nasawatch.com/index.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_water_000620.html

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water.03/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_799000/799552.stm

http://www.destinationspace.net/frontier/mgsnews.asp



June 21, 2000

Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone:  202/358-1727)

Mary Hardin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 
(Phone:  818/354-0344)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N00-26

NASA PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW TO DISCUSS NEW IMAGES 
SUGGESTING PRESENT-DAY SOURCES OF LIQUID WATER ON MARS

NASA will hold a press conference tomorrow, Thursday, June 
22, at 11 a.m. EDT, to discuss the recent discovery of evidence of 
liquid water on Mars using NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, 
with a paper to be published in the June 30 issue of Science 
magazine.  Because some press reports over the past two days on 
the subject have been incorrect in significant areas, NASA has 
arranged to hold the press conference earlier than originally 
planned so that the Principal Investigators, Drs. Michael Malin 
and Ken Edgett, can discuss their findings in person.  Also, 
Science Magazine will release the paper at 10 a.m. EDT tomorrow in 
advance of the press conference.  The briefing will be held at the 
James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., SW, 
Washington, DC.

Panelists will be:

*  Dr. Ed Weiler, Associate Administrator, Office of Space 
   Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC

*  Dr. Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars 
   Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, 
   Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), San Diego, CA

*  Dr. Ken Edgett, staff scientist at MSSS and co-author of the 
   paper in Science

*  Dr. Mike Carr, Planetary Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 
   Menlo Park, CA

*  Dr. Bruce Jakosky, Director, Center for Astrobiology, 
   University of Colorado, Boulder

*  Dr. Jim Garvin, Mars Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, 
   Washington, DC

NASA Television is broadcast on GE-2, transponder 9C located 
at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization.  
Frequency is on 3880.0 MHz, with audio on 6.8 MHz.

Reporters also can listen to the press conference by calling:  
321/867-1220,  321/867-1240,  321/867-1260,  321/867-7135,  
321/867-4920,  321/867-4003.

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