What Has NASA’s Curiosity Found on Mars? We’ll Find Out Thursday

The Mars rover found something sufficiently interesting to hold a press conference this Thursday, but details are embargoed until that time.

NASA will webcast Thursday’s Curiosity Mars rover discussion on its NASA TV channel, as well as Facebook Live, Twitch TV, Ustream, YouTube and Twitter/Periscope. You’ll be able to ask questions of the panel via social media using by tagging your posts with #askNASA.

So, what did it find? It will probably be something along the lines of a scientifically interesting mineral deposit… something indicating the past or recent existence of water, perhaps. Perhaps it stumbled across an actual sign of liquid water bubbling up. Or just maybe, it found something that looks like a fossil… not a fossilized trilobite, but fossilized algal mats or something.

But heck, why not… it found a chunk of processed plastic. It found footprints in the sand. It found Nazi memorabilia. It photographed an alien. It peeked around the curtain at the edge of the set and saw an aged but obviously still alive Stanley Kubrick.