An otherwise routine House of Representatives hearing took a strange turn today when a Congressman asked NASA if Mars could have once been home to an ancient civilization.
The odd exchange occurred during a meeting of the House committee of Science, Space, and Technology after NASA scientist Ken Farley detailed plans for the space agency's next Mars rover mission.
Responding to Farley's testimony that Mars appears to have once possessed a vast amount of water in its distant past, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California posed the rather intriguing question.
Find out how the remarkable exchange unfolded at the Coast to Coast AM website.