# So what did Opportunity turn up?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-opportunity-turn-up/235836
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-opportunity-turn-up/235836 "2004-03-23T03:03:59Z")
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### Author: ![Capt.Caustic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Capt.Caustic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Caustic)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-opportunity-turn-up/235836/1 "2004-03-23T03:03:59Z")

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[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/opportunity\_announcement\_040322.html](http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/opportunity_announcement_040322.html)

NASA will announce a “major scientific finding” from its Mars rover mission on Tuesday, March 23 at 2 p.m. ET, the agency said in a statement.

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### Author: ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-opportunity-turn-up/235836/2 "2004-03-23T19:59:15Z")

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[Standing water on the surface](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040323/ap_on_sc/mars_rovers_10). Not now, of course, but previously.

Probably doesn’t sound like much to the average person, but in terms of planetary science, this is a whopper of a discovery.