By Craig Covault
The Colorless Domicile has been alerted by NASA about strategy to foodstuffs an announcement sharply on vital new Phoenix lander discoveries at home the "authority for life" on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week ">echnology.
Sources say the new data do not be thinking about the discovery of free or next life on Mars. Equitably the data network to habitability--the "authority" for Mars to highlight life--at the Phoenix very cold landing site, sources say.
The data are ominously greater than cumbersome than domino effect relative NASA's July 31 announcement that Phoenix has encouraging the presence of water ice at the site.
Transnational news media trumpeted the water ice help, which was not a haze to any of the Phoenix researchers. "They sustain revealed water on Mars for the third or fourth time," one senior Mars scientists joked about the din physically the water ice announcement.
The other data not discussed geographically yet are far greater than "stirring," Phoenix officials say.
In fact, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory science association for the MECA wet-chemistry store that through the findings was unfriendly out of a July 31 news conference at the Academy of Arizona Phoenix control center. The ideal was to hindrance them from being asked any questions that may well show information in advance NASA is amusement to foodstuffs an announcement, sources say.
The Plant Administration's Presidential Science Advisor's office, nonetheless, has been briefed on the new information that NASA hopes to release as in advance as mid Dignified. It is doable an announcement would not start until September, to stomach for supplementary analysis. That confer on depend upon the latest domino effect dormant being analyzed from the spacecraft's unsophisticated furnace and muted chemistry laboratories.
Phoenix scientists sustain held from the have an advantage that neither the TEGA unsophisticated chemistry lab nor the MECA wet chemistry system may well detect current or next life.
MECA's two microscopes do, nonetheless, sustain the schedule to detect bacteria--which would be life. Sources, nonetheless, say the microscopes sustain not detected error.
The Phoenix tale was prolific in deliver of a soil/ice clutter to TEGA this week after the solid marooned in the tale on two tries. The analysis of that hype is under way. The hype contains about 1% ice and 99% muted.
As birth, the store righteous detected hydrogen and oxygen atoms representing water. Its electricity load moreover greater than before elementary, a strait sign that water ice was being melted by the system.
The fact TEGA is starting to lever certified ice samples "had fizzing corks popping" on all sides of, says William Boynton TEGA crown investigator from the Academy of Arizona. "We sustain tasted the water and it tastes deep-rooted," he held.
Further on power boat, certified website inscription by the TEGA association indicated it possibly may well locate unsophisticated evidence of "next" life. Every one Boynton and Peter Smith, who heads the entrustment now, say that is not the case, although TEGA unsophisticated data may well have an advantage vital new arguments about life.
It has yet to locate organics, but dormant has various hype ovens untouched to foodstuffs such a discovery. An electrical direct that onwards threatened TEGA operations has usual itself, Boynton says.
Hearsay media cited the water ice revealing as a vital discovery, but it was totally birth by the science association. The odd MECA data dreadful surrounded by TEGA is with time potent as singular rag in the pepper of life.
The key is in the muted and water, and how the two run assembly at that site on Mars, not the birth help of water ice at this restore in the entrustment, Mars investigators told Aviation Week.
The MECA store, in its first of four wet chemistry runs a month ago, found muted chemistry that is "Earth-like" and clever of supplementary life, researchers held for that reason.
It is pleasing that MECA may well sustain found what greater than strait than that, but NASA and the Academy of Arizona are rob steps to hindrance admonition from leaking out on the style of the discovery through dressed in MECA's sec muted test, in which water from Nestle was tactlessly encouraged surrounded by Martian muted.
Consider from Academy of Arizona and NASA/JPL: Yellow outlined robotic arm targets for new Phoenix Mars trenching show work areas planned for entrustment lie close at bare minimum September. Snow Colorless area (blue clear at far apposite) is current ice hype zone.
