Nasa speaks the truth to make an “astonishing” declaration about Pluto, as per a senior researcher, who depicted the planet as “alive”.
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And if Dr Alan Stern’s comments to a packed hall at the University of Alberta in Canada are anything to go by, we might very well be talking about alien life forms.
“Nasa won’t wow what we’re going to let you know on Thursday,” he said amid the discourse. “Every week I am floored”.
Stern said that NASA wouldn’t allow him to reveal much about the announcement except that it is going to be “amazing”.
Even if Nasa is yet to snap the elusive ETs – it could be about to announce it has found more water.
“Pluto and its largest moon Charon dance around each other, making circles around their common centre of mass, which lies in an empty space between them”, NASA says.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon.
Dr Stern said he could not reveal any details ahead of the press conference, but appeared barely able to contain his excitement at his organisation’s latest find.
Soon after the probe made its flypast TV scientist Professor Brian Cox said its photographs “showed you that there may well be a subsurface ocean on Pluto, which means – if our understanding of life on Earth is even slightly correct – that you could have living things there”.
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“2015 will be a year in textbooks forever”, he said. He also talked about New Horizons extended mission to fly across the Kuiper Belt.
