A Better, Wetter Mars?

The AP is reporting a significant press conference on the existence of water on Mars tomorrow. I'll update as soon as the press conference hits the wires.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA plans to announce "significant findings" about the history of water on Mars discovered by its Opportunity rover, which has been studying rocks and soil for evidence that the Red Planet was once a wetter place that could have been hospitable to life.

"The primary mission of the rovers really dealt with the history of water on Mars and we'll be reporting new findings that bear on that," NASA spokesman Don Savage said Monday from Washington, D.C. "I can't go into any detail without telling you what it was."

The findings were to be released Tuesday during a press conference at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington.