NPR reports NASA's Curiosity rover has made what one team member calls a discovery "for the history books." Exactly what has been discovered is being withheld for now to give sciemtists time to be sure the data is solid and that they thoroughly understand it, but SPACE.com reports the announcement will be made early next month at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
We know Curiosity has been busy analyzing soil samples, so it's reasonable to speculate the discovery is somehow related to that. Have organic compounds, the building blocks of life, been found in Martian soil? Even life itself? Or has Curiosity's video camera picked up something totally remarkable? We'll soon know.
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