Melbourne, Sept 30 - NASA's yesterday's announcement that flowing water had been discovered on Mars couldn't surprise ' The Martian' director Ridley Scott as he claims that he knew about this discovery months ago.
With this, people have started speculating that NASA waited to tell the world about the discovery so that the two would collide and drum up more publicity for each other, News.com.au reported.
Laurie Cantillo, NASA spokeswoman, defended, saying that the timing was dictated by the publication of the Nature Geoscience article.