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Let's try to keep the politics out of this, folks. I can't tell you how frustrating it is seeing a space/science thread time after time turn from a thoughtful discussion into a couple of morons complaining about their taxes and the government in all caps..
In terms of this discovery the article is mentioning, two things immediately jumped out at me -
1. The rover was stopped, in the same location, for 6 weeks "testing its soil scoop". I find that very telling, because it was my understanding that it would be in transit for a while until it reached its first main destination.
2. It will take "weeks to confirm", yet the rover has moved back into transit.
My hunch is they replicated the hell out of their initial findings to be ultra-conservative, and likely repeated the experiment(s) dozens of times. in stating that the window in terms of what they have found that could be "one for the history books" is very narrow. IMO,
I think they may have found microbial life, or some type of methane detection that is emanating from the soil which would be indicative of microbial byproducts i.e. - LIFE!
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