SPACE - I am SAM

Yesterday Mars Science Laboratory principal investigator John Grotzinger set the entire space science world abuzz with a tantalizing promise of "earthshaking" news on the horizon-literally "one for the history books," as he put it in an interview with NPR. It seems one of Curiosity's main science tools, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, has discovered... something... within recently-gathered samples, possibly in windblown-material scooped at a site called "Rocknest" earlier this month.

http://phys.org/news272794054.html