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February 17, 2005
Life on Mars?
Space.com has an exclusive story about a couple of NASA scientists that have submitted a paper to the journal Nature on the existence of life on Mars currently:
WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.
The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.
What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
I don't know what to make of this, but I can't wait to see if Nature publishes this and what the scientific community will have to say about it at that time.
Posted by Samer at February 17, 2005 09:18 AM