Once teased as "one for the record books," NASA is now actively toning down hype surrounding its pending announcement regarding findings from the Mars Curiosity Rover. It was only a week ago that principal Curiosity investigator John Grotzinger told NPR, "this data is gonna be one for the history books." Thanks to the rover's SAM instrumentation — which analyzes the composition of dirt, rocks, air, and other items on the Red Planet — experts had come across something significant, he said. "The science team is busily chewing away on it as it comes down," Grotzinger said of SAM's data, adding it looked "real good" that NASA could soon divulge historic news.
But now the agency is backpedaling slightly, with spokesman Guy Webster...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3694028/nasa-downplays-mars-news-curiosity
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