We could just be weeks away from a historic NASA announcement regarding Mars. NASA is analyzing data from Curiosity, which they describe as “one for the history books”. They’re still going through all of the data to make sure, but they explained how big a deal the announcement may be in an interview with NPR:

Grotzinger says it will take several weeks before he and his team are ready to talk about their latest finding. In the meantime he’ll fend off requests from pesky reporters, and probably from NASA brass as well. Like any big institution, NASA would love to trumpet a major finding, especially at a time when budget decisions are being made. Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes.

Whatever it is, it’s big…