Does anyone know how this jives with Slate and The Atlantic reporting yesterday that the whole thing was a big misunderstanding and that no big discovery had been made?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841107 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840905
Edit: Here are similar stories from PC Magazine and Mashable, which was apparently the original source of all of these articles:
http://mashable.com/2012/11/27/curiosity-rover-discovery-npr...