# NASA Has Mars Announcement
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 26, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537 "2015-09-26T02:47:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/1 "2015-09-26T02:47:53Z")
But we have to wait until Monday, apparently.
> **[NASA Will Announce A Major Mars Discovery On Monday](https://www.iflscience.com/nasa-announce-major-discovery-regarding-mars-monday-30886)**
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> NASA Will Announce A Major Mars Discovery On Monday
I apologize if there is already a thread-- I searched but didn’t see one.
Anyone have a guess? I am guessing that perhaps there is evidence of water, past or present-- but I don’t really know. I hope it really is a “major” announcement. I don’t want to wonder all weekend, then be disappointed if it’s something major to NASA but appears minor to us laypeople.
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### Author:  [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/2 "2015-09-26T02:51:26Z")
Well the fact it’s on Monday bodes well.
I agree - they found water. Awesome. But I’ll wait til Monday.
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/3 "2015-09-26T02:54:16Z")
In second the water. Probably a lot of it too.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/4 "2015-09-26T02:57:32Z")
HOLY SHIT! [A leaked picture](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/52/17/cc/5217ccefe47d6032b72e21476b36e823.jpg)!
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/5 "2015-09-26T03:06:47Z")
[Another leaked picture.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bu8P0B1xnjc/UGdhrDd--YI/AAAAAAAAJgI/sXrkBKrbWX8/s1600/waterOnMars.jpg) 😃
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/6 "2015-09-26T03:31:38Z")
Dude, they totally found evidence of E.T… I am so excited, this is huge.
Extra Testicles
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### Author:  [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/7 "2015-09-26T03:39:51Z")
Water on Mars is old news, isn’t it? Granted, as ice, but still.
Liquid, briny water perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/8 "2015-09-26T04:24:00Z")
Mayhap they found the skeletal remains of a three-teated lady.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/9 "2015-09-26T04:57:32Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> Dude, they totally found evidence of E.T… I am so excited, this is huge.
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> Extra Testicles
Well, I think they either found the relatives of what sits on the head of Trump or they found who put the metal nuts under the back of the Curiosity Rover. 🙂
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/10 "2015-09-26T05:02:41Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Mayhap they found the skeletal remains of a three-teated lady.
Eccentrica Gallumbits?
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/11 "2015-09-26T07:15:00Z")
A natural mountain formation that just happens to resemble Mt. Rushmore?
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/12 "2015-09-26T07:39:50Z")
I’m not holding my breath. They’ve done this before with no real major announcement.
NASA’s way of keeping themselves in the news?
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/13 "2015-09-26T09:11:46Z")
> [@Ale](#):
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> Water on Mars is old news, isn’t it? Granted, as ice, but still.
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> Liquid, briny water perhaps?
We have lots of evidence that liquid water was abundant on Mars eons ago. And there’s even some that it exists on (well, under the surface of) Mars today. Old news indeed.
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### Author:  [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/14 "2015-09-26T10:06:56Z")
[Mars Needs Women](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Women) or perhaps [Mars Needs Moms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Moms)?
[Jupiter will align with Mars and will be followed by peace guiding the planets and love steering the stars.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X5HYynP5E)
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/15 "2015-09-26T10:52:45Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Mayhap they found the skeletal remains of a three-teated lady.
😕
How would they KNOW?
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/16 "2015-09-26T13:04:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> 😕
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> How would they KNOW?
Mud on the tires.
Woops, that was for water.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/17 "2015-09-26T14:11:10Z")
Opportunity is up on blocks with the wheels missing.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/18 "2015-09-26T14:22:55Z")
A Big Mac wrapper.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/19 "2015-09-26T14:34:33Z")
A decorative, commemorative cross with flowers around it stuck in the ground near Rover tracks.
(I’ll stop now)
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### Author:  [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/20 "2015-09-26T14:37:42Z")
“After many years and thousands of man hours of study, we have now concluded that there is really nothing interesting on Mars. Seriously, there’s fuck all up there apart from some dust and rocks and frankly, we’re just bored of it. We’re all sick of spending our days poring over hundreds of identical pictures of bits of rock. We just can’t be bothered any more.
Therefore, effective immediately, the Mars program is cancelled. Sorry to have wasted your time.”
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