Citizens were given background information about three potential Mars exploration scenarios that NASA could carry out: 1) Crewed orbital mission to direct robots on the surface of Mars; 2) Short exploratory crewed mission to the surface of Mars; and 3) establishing a permanent settlement.
Until I asked about Nasa.
It is difficult not to get excited about Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover.
This is because Apollo 18 is about Nasa's discontinued moon-landing programme.
"Planck has the extra sensitivity and resolution to retrieve yet more information," the Nasa scientist told BBC News.
Collaborating with other scientists working in the region, the police are attempting to use any available information about the area, as well as recent satellite images from Nasa and the European Space Agency, to try to recover the bodies.
Then Nasa expanded the data set it used to include information about ocean temperatures and corrected for the then well-documented "urban heat island" effect.
More than a decade has passed since a self-styled computer nerd, working out of a bedroom in north London, started trawling through the computer systems of Nasa and the US defence department in search of information about UFOs.
The engineer, who worked on Nasa's space shuttle programme, had stored binders full of information about US military aircraft in his home, collecting data that he passed on to China over three decades.
Here is how the evidence stacks up: While the search for evidence of life on Mars remains the focus, Nasa's Messenger mission is uncovering all sorts of weird information about Mercury – from mysterious hollows to an offset magnetic field.
