Mars Buzz

As a quick update to the buzz regarding Phoenix lander data that was being kept "hush-hush": apparently, there had been no Presidential briefing made by NASA, AND the fact that perchlorates would indicate that life could NEVER have developed on Mars is not exactly true, either. At this point, it's too early to say what the presence of perchlorates would mean to the potential for finding life on the Red Planet. NASA, for the first time, actually had to go public with its news before scientists had completed their analysis of the Phoenix lander data because of all the buzz being generated, some false, especially online.