NASA To Announce "Significant Find" on Mars


	NASA To Announce "Significant Find" on Mars

silentsignals

12-5-2006 4:29 PM

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nasa, space, mars, moon, moonbase, robots

silentsignals says:

This looks interesting... hope it doesn't turn out to be anti-climactic

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12-6-2006 1:07 PM

Djiezes

Nasa Conference is being broadcasted right now (just started):
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

12-6-2006 1:51 PM

invictus

Thanks Djiezes! It's very interesting.

12-6-2006 3:02 PM

Djiezes

Yeah it was.
Liquid, flowing water ... Fresh craters ...
Glad you liked it, N° 1

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