{"id":9162,"date":"2010-11-30T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/30\/nasa-mystery-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:57:02","slug":"nasa-mystery-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/nasa-mystery-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA mystery press conference:  Did they find ET?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has slyly, or inadvertantly, let out a handful of clues that a planned news conference will reveal details of an important new finding regarding life on other planets.  There have been a number of moments in the history of astrobiology where an important find has gotten us all very excited, including the discovery of isotopic profiles on a Mars rock (a meteorite) indicating a biological pathway, parallel findings on Mars, various discoveries related to water on Mars, and analysis of places like <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/11\/unmasking_europa.php\">Europa<\/a> and Titan, and so on.  The word on the street is that this is going to be one such moment.<\/p>\n<p>The press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2.  Speculation based on who will be present at the press conference has suggested that this is a about Mars, or Titan, or Photosynthesis, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, NASA has said that they will discuss: &#8220;an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.&#8221;  To me, that could mean that something has been found on another planet or moon that is or was alive, an actual finding out there, or it could mean a new technique or model (the finding) that will unfold as a project (a mission).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has slyly, or inadvertantly, let out a handful of clues that a planned news conference will reveal details of an important new finding regarding life on other planets. There have been a number of moments in the history of astrobiology where an important find has gotten us all very excited, including the discovery of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/nasa-mystery-press-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA mystery press conference:  Did they find ET?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2nM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}