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Life on Mars: Not So Fast
Two days ago BigEd put up a post about evidence of life on Mars. That post pointed to this article, which was based on information given to the author by people who'd attended a scientific meeting. It didn't come from the scientists themselves. Well, today NASA issued a press release putting the brakes on the whole thing: News reports on February 16, 2005, that NASA scientists from Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have found strong evidence that life may exist on Mars are incorrect.NASA does not have any observational data from any current Mars missions that supports this claim. The work by the scientists mentioned in the reports cannot be used to directly infer anything about life on Mars, but may help formulate the strategy for how to search for martian life. Their research concerns extreme environments on Earth as analogs of possible environments on Mars. No research paper has been submitted by them to any scientific journal asserting martian life. Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-02-18 |
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