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"We don't want to come to you and say 'we found chocolate on Mars,' then come back and say, 'We were wrong it was strawberry.' We don't want to do that," MECA lead scientist Michael Hecht told reporters. Over in the U.K., Stuart Atkinson was listening and responded immediately. Even before the press briefing was over, some of the Phoenix team saw it on UnmannedSpaceFlight.com, where Atkinson posted it, and were seen to be chuckling. "It was the best," Hecht said later. We, too found it amusing and with Atkinson's permission are reposting it here. Credit: Stuart Atkinson The rumors that Phoenix had found something really big had grown so out of control last weekend that they had become something of a big alien snowball headed right toward Washington. So, in a hastily arranged teleconference, Phoenix mission scientists met the... [read full story]
