White House Mars Briefing Untrue?

Despite the recent global Internet buzz about a White House breifing by NASA scientists on the possibility of life on Mars, it appears that no such meeting occured and that reports of such a meeting are exaggerated or "untrue and incorrect."

While NASA expects to have a major announcement soon about the Mars Phoenix Lander science, it is not expected to be a declaration of life on the Red Planet but evidence relating to the planet's "habitability." The announcement is expected to be more dramatic than the recent news that Phoenix had confirmed there was water ice on the planet.