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| Life on Mars | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 18 2008, 06:12 PM (106 Views) | |
| Isis | Feb 18 2008, 06:12 PM Post #1 |
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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. Stoker and other researchers have long theorized that the Martian subsurface could harbor biological organisms that have developed unusual strategies for existing in extreme environments. That suspicion led Stoker and a team of U.S. and Spanish researchers in 2003 to southwestern Spain to search for subsurface life near the Rio Tinto river--so-called because of its reddish tint--the product of iron being dissolved in its highly acidic water. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html There is so much they have yet to tell us.... 
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| Darknight | Feb 18 2008, 06:45 PM Post #2 |
 
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It is probable to suggest that there may have been at one time Life on mars Suggesting that the planet can sustain its polar caps, One would think that it has alot in common with earth. |
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| Mystical | Feb 19 2008, 12:44 AM Post #3 |
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It could have been probable. I recently watched something about this and they said that the organisms could sustain life. Who knows what all this will mean in the future? |
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| ravenheart_05 | Feb 19 2008, 02:23 AM Post #4 |
 
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This is highly possible. I remember watching a Discovery Channel show (yes, I am a Geek!!!) about life in the deep oceans where there is no oxygen. Life forms that deep lived near underwater vents that spewed a hot cloud of nearly pure sulfur. That is what these creatures lived on!! Also, there was a lake of some substance that was heavier than water. It looked very surreal!! Life on Mars looked maore plausible after that!! |
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| Isis | Mar 4 2008, 02:20 PM Post #5 |
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I really think we have yet to hear the thruth about what they have found on Mar's...
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| DONTEATUS | Sep 28 2008, 08:31 AM Post #6 |
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There is definitly water on mars ,just how much and where is the question that only man will find when we go there in a few years.Like on other site way too much suspision is placed on these reports by the non-Space exploring peoples.Space is really Big Mind Boggleing Big. But I do Have a Afinity for Mars Like Ive been there before? |
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