NASA rover: Exploring Mars since 2011 FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up forfor the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. NASA’s thrilling new discoveries are embargoed until later today at 7pm BST (2pm EDT) when the agency’s space boffins will go live online. But tidbits of information have leaked from NASA, teasing what the Mars announcement might be about. The biggest hint is a leak which suggests the live conference today is all about "new science results from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover”. NASA teased in a tweet today the announcement will reveal “two new” findings. The space agency posted: “Join us tomorrow at 2pm ET for a lively discussion about two new Mars science results from the Mars Curiosity rover on the Red Planet.” Join us tomorrow at 2pm ET for a lively discussion about two new Mars science results NASA Earlier on Monday, NASA proudly boasted the Curiosity Rover’s drilling tools were back in action after a whole year of inactivity. NASA mobile research platform on Mars is now drilling into the surface of the Red Planet to study the mineral composition of powdered rock samples. Jim Erickson, project manager of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, praised NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists for figuring out a new way for Curiosity to collect samples. The NASA expert said: “This was no small feat. It represents months and months of work by our team to pull this off. NASA news: The US space agency will reveal two new Curiosity Rover announcement “JPL's engineers had to improvise a new way for the rover to drill rocks on Mars after a mechanical problem took the drill offline in December 2016.” The rover began drilling into the planet again last month on May 20, which has led some to speculate NASA has come across samples of microbial life. We also know who will attend the live discussion further hinting about the nature of the discovery. The esteemed members of the panel are Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard, Chris Webster, from NASA’s Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist. NASA's stunning images of Mars Wed, March 29, 2017 Mars in pictures: NASA shares stunning images of red planet. Play slideshow NASA 1 of 15 Layered deposits in Uzboi Vallis The particular combination of scientists suggests NASA may have uncovered some crucial information about the planet’s climate and atmospherics. Each of the panellists expertise focuses on areas relating to Mars’ geologic studies, planetary atmospheres and the potential habitability of the Red Planet. NASA has pledged to send humans to Mars by the year 2030 and a number of unmanned rover missions will precede this goalpost starting from 2020. The space agency could be about to reveal news concerning the planet’s ability to house humans in the near future. NASA’s latest discoveries are embargoed from the public until later this afternoon by the science journal Science. NASA news: The Curiosity Rover landed on the dusty Red Planet in August 2012 NASA news: The announcement will stream live online across the world<doc-sep>NASA rover: Exploring Mars since 2011 FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up forfor the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. NASA is holding a live conference unveiling the findings it has uncovered Mars from its Curiosity Rover mission. Curiosity is a car-side space exploratory vehicle which has been traversing the Red Planet since 2012 to determine if life there ever existed. It is hoped the mission will eventually help human exploration of Mars - which sits 54.6 million kilometres away from Earth. NASA’s conference began at 2pm Eastern Time (7pm BST) and you can follow live updates here. NASA Mars 2018 LIVE: What has NASA discovered on Mars? - latest news If you are hoping NASA has announced the existence of alien life - we are sorry to disappoint it has not. But Curiosity has discovered “tough” organic molecules from an ancient lake bed inside Gale Crater, showing lakes may have existed for “maybe hundreds or thousands of years”. The rover also found seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane. Curiosity's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: “The chances of being able to find signs of ancient life with future missions, if life ever was present, just went up.” NASA Mars 2018 LIVE: What has NASA discovered on Mars? - latest news The organic molecules contain carbon and hydrogen and other possible live-giving elements such as oxygen and nitrogen. They were found in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near the surface, as well as seasonal variations in the levels of methane in the atmosphere, according to NASA. Scientists say three different types of organic molecules were found by the rover after it dug just two inches (5cm) in the planet’s surface. Contained below the 3.5 billion-year-old mudstone was a fine-grained sedimentary rock. NASA Mars 2018 LIVE: This landscape of Mars was photographed by Curiosity Rover in 2012 NASA Mars 2018 LIVE: A near identical copy of Curiosity Rover<doc-sep>Nasa has found exciting new "results" on Mars and will hold a press conference to reveal them, it has announced. The agency has refused to reveal more details of what it has discovered on the Red Planet. But the new research came from the Curiosity rover that has been collecting samples from the planet, in part in an attempt to understand whether it was ever a home for alien life. Nasa's announcement only said that it would hold a press conference about "new science results from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover". It did not give any detail on what those results were. 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In this 1984 photograph of the first untethered spacewalk, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless is in the midst of the first "field" tryout of a nitrogen-propelled backpack device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) Nasa Nasa's most stunning pictures of space A Hubble Cosmic Couple The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it ESA/Hubble & NASA Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago Nasa's most stunning pictures of space The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket launch The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, carrying three new astronauts to the International Space Station. 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The Gemini IV crew conducted scientific experiments, including photography of Earth's weather and terrain, for the remainder of their four-day mission following Ed White's historic spacewalk on June 3 Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Frosty slopes of Mars This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater. The image was taken by Nasa's HiRISE camera, which is mounted on its Mars Reconaissance Orbiter Nasa Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Yellowstone from space NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone via his twitter account Nasa Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Saturn This near-infrared color image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, off of a hydrocarbon lake named Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan Nasa Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Worlds Apart Although Mimas and Pandora, shown here, both orbit Saturn, they are very different moons. 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The image shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack Nasa Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Morning Aurora From the Space Station Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station Nasa/Scott Kelly Nasa's most stunning pictures of space Launch of History - Making STS-41G Mission in 1984 The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Florida at dawn. On this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform a spacewalk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The crew of seven was the largest to fly on a spacecraft at that time, and STS-41G was the first flight to include two female astronauts Nasa's most stunning pictures of space A Fresh Perspective on an Extraordinary Cluster of Galaxies Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives.<doc-sep>USA TODAY NASA will host a discussion on new science results from its Mars Curiosity Rover on Thursday, June 7th. The rover has been collecting data on the Red Planet since August 2012. The results are being held in a live discussion format so curious space and Mars enthusiasts can send their questions. The Curiosity Rover has been investigating various rock layers on Mars to better understand why the planet turned from wet and warm to dry and rocky. According to NASA, the Curiosity is the "largest and most capable" rover ever to make contact with Mars. NASA deems the Curiosity the "largest and most capable" rover ever to make contact with Mars. It's about the size of a car, has a seven-foot-long arm, carries 10 science instruments, 17 cameras and a laser to "vaporize" rocks. USA TODAY is providing live coverage of the discussion in the player above starting at 2 p.m. ET.<doc-sep>
NASA is announcing a new discovery about Mars on Thursday. The Curiosity Rover, which has been roaming the Martian surface for nearly six years, beamed back the data that led to the finding. You can watch NASA scientists reveal their discovery live tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET. Here's how. NASA's Curiosity Rover has found some new and exciting information about Mars, and the space agency is announcing that discovery to the world on Thursday. The Curiosity Rover launched from Earth in November 2011 and landed on Martian soil on August 6, 2012. It has since been cruising around the red planet's surface, functioning as a 9-foot-wide roving science machine. Curiosity has a few key tasks on Mars: it's meant to study the Martian climate, check for signs of life, search for ice and water, and serve as a kind of planetary scout to see if Mars could ever sustain human life. The laboratory-on-wheels can also take an excellent selfie. The new results of the Rover's work on Mars will be released in the journal Science tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET, which is also when NASA will air a live discussion of those findings. You can tune in to NASA's website at that time to watch the conversation live, or find livestreams on Facebook Live, Twitch TV, Ustream, YouTube, and Twitter/Periscope. During the announcement, you'll hear from two scientists who work at at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, along with two researchers from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Did the rover find something funky in the Martian soil? Or detect a new kind of mineral? Perhaps it's learned something unique about the temperature on Mars, or gleaned a new insight into how the planet might one day sustain us? You'll find out tomorrow. If you have questions for the NASA scientists, you can submit them on Twitter by using the hashtag #askNASA.