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Mars rover makes 'significant findings'
NASA to announce discoveries Tuesday
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Posted: 8:46 AM EST (1346 GMT)



The Mars rover Opportunity examines an area dubbed "El Capitan."

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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Opportunity rover has apparently found something on Mars that's got scientists buzzing back on Earth.

NASA plans to announce Tuesday "significant findings" involving the six-wheeled rover that has been searching the dusty martian landscape since January for any history of water.

"The primary mission of the rovers really dealt with the history of water on Mars and we'll be reporting new findings that bear on that," NASA spokesman Don Savage said Monday from Washington, D.C. "I can't go into any detail without telling you what it was."

Since NASA launched the twin robot geologists last summer, scientists hoped the rovers would find minerals that could reveal whether the planet ever was wet enough to support life.

Other than a statement characterizing the findings as "significant," the space agency revealed no details in advance. However, participants in the twin rover mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said last week that scientists were excited by data that Opportunity was sending back to Earth.

Opportunity has been studying an outcropping of layered rock close to its landing site in a small crater on an area of Mars called Meridiani Planum. A piece dubbed "El Capitan" has generated much of the latest interest.

Rob Manning, a mission manager, said a week ago that he couldn't comment on the science team's speculation about the findings but that there was "probably as much enthusiasm as we've ever had by the science team and a lot of intense discussions over these last several days."

Opportunity, as well as its twin Spirit, has been using microscopic photography, rock abrasion tools that grind off surface layers and spectrometers to examine the martian landscape.

While Opportunity has stayed close to its landing site to explore the outcropping, Spirit has been traveling on the other side of the planet, studying rocks and soil en route to a big crater named "Bonneville" that scientists hope will give the rover a view of geology well below the surface.


마스 로버 굉장한 발견을 하다.

화요일에 나사가 발견을 발표

오퍼투니티 로버가 지구의 과학자들에게 충격을주는 것을 발견한 것으로 보인다.

1월달부터 물의 자취를 찾다여섯 바퀴의 로버가 찾은 흙에 뭍힌 화성인의 흔적을 나사가 화요일날 굉장한발견이라고발표하기로 계획했다.

"로버의 주요 임무는 정말로 화성에서 물의 흔적은 찾는 것이였으며 그거에 근거에 우리는 우리의 새로운 발견을 보고 할것이다." 나사 대변인 돈 세비지가 월요일날 워싱턴D.C.에서말했다. "당신한테 그게 뭔지 말하지 않고는 더이상 자세하게 들어갈 수 없다."

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