The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that they will have a press conference this Monday, Sept. 28, which will reveal a major science finding on Mars. The conference invited Lujendra Ojha, a PhD candidate who discovered possible signs of water as a 21-year-old undergraduate student in 2011 as a speaker and will be part of the NASA revelation. Assumptions are being made as to what NASA and Ojha will announce.
There have been many speculations that the possible announcement will be about the discovery of water on the red planet. While others are saying that alien life form might be present in Mars. But according to most, the possible discovery is the water, which is pivotal for holding life in Mars, and also for future manned missions on the planet.
Frozen waters on both poles of Mars has been well known for a long time by the scientists, but of any liquid form discovery is yet to be made. Mr. Ojha's findings back in 2011 were said to gullies thought as remnants of historical water activity on the planet. In his work he accidentally discovered changes in the appearance of the slope of the crater, with "finger-like" craters that many scientists think could be liquid or briny water.
Scientists also theorized that it might be able to host alien life forms, with tiny creature here on Earth showing that they could live entirely on brine without oxygen, possible life forms may be present on Mars. Curiosity, the Mars rover of NASA, discovered 'burps' of methane on the red planet back in 2012. NASA scientists indicate that these burps of methane may be due ancient methane trapped that may lead to the discovery of ancient life on Mars.
Methane here on Earth is a byproduct of living organisms and that the gas encountered in Mars might be coming from bacteria. The latest research will be published in the journal Nature Geoscience, at 4pm today, after NASA's press conference. The revelation NASA will announce might change the whole perspective of the red planet.
