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Today we are getting soft disclosure Headline:
Alien breakthrough as water on Mars contained just the right ingredients to support life, scientists say.
The data suggests that the lakes would have had a pH - a measurement of the acidity of water - similar to that in the Earth's oceans.
That means the water could have just the write make-up to have supported any microbial life that formed on the planet.
The discovery doesn't bring scientists any closer to finding life on Mars, but it does suggest evidence of life that once existed there could be discovered before long.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/alien-breakthrough-as-water-on-mars-contained-just-the-right-ingredients-to-support-life-scientists-say
Also today Headline:
NASA's $2.5B rover is frozen on Mars
"Some knowledge of its attitude was not quite right, so it couldn't make the essential safety evaluation," Curiosity team member Dawn Sumner wrote in the post. "Thus, Curiosity stopped moving, freezing in place until its knowledge of its orientation can be recovered."
Year 2020 is poised to be a big one for the exploration of Mars. NASA will launch the Mars 2020 rover (renamed prior to launch) on July 17, joining the Curiosity rover and the now-deceased Opportunity rover on the Red Planet.
The Mars 2020 rover, expected to reach the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021, will detect if there is any fossilized evidence of extraterrestrial beings, in addition to other tasks. In 2019, Curiosity detected oxygen that "behaves in a way that so far scientists cannot explain."
Several months prior to that, the rover also detected an "unusually high" level of methane on Mars. On Earth, methane is produced both biologically and geologically, although it is not clear what caused the methane spike on Mars.
NASA’s long-term goal is to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s. However, former astronauts, including Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, think we should skip a return mission to the Moon, slated for 2024, and "shoot directly for Mars."
https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-rover-frozen-on-mars