Life on Mars looks more likely

[RobH]

On AOL yestraday was a piece saying that new evidence of life in Martian meteorites had turned up.

I've had a bit of a search, and it is now looking a lot more likely that life in a simple form did in fact exist there.

If it started on 2 planets in the same solar system, it's going to be everywhere

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Martian meteorite surrenders new secrets of possible life

About time to go there and start digging!!

Cheers

Rob

[nitram100]

The sad thing is that the significance of this will be lost on the average person who only wants to see little green men with big eyes!

But yeh, this is pretty damn exciting!

[RobH]

Looks like the significance has been lost on most of this forum too

[beamish]

[Glasspusher]

I think the problem is that we have heard this before with the Allan Hills meteorite, we all got really excited only to be let down. Hopefully, when we get something a little more sustantial people will sit up and take notice. Certainly, there is a growing body of evidence to support some form of primitive life on Mars and in the universe generally, as for 'intelligent' life I am not so sure!

John

[Sam]

It's quite amazing and will be interesting to watch this develop. It'll be quite a discovery to confirm life is/was present so close to earth in our own solar system.

[dark knight]

Well at the end of the day we are all made from star dust, so I think it's inevitable life in some form will be found sooner or later....How's the tour gone Rob, hope it all went/going according to plan mate......

[brianb]

If it started on 2 planets in the same solar system

Proving that life is (or was) on Mars is hard enough, proving that it developed independently may be a lot harder. Primitive life could have "hitched a lift" on a meteorite .... or both Earth and Mars could have been "seeded" (much more likely accidentally than deliberately IMHO) by space-travelling visitors to the newly formed Solar System four billion years ago.

[Brunty12345]

it will be amazing when the day comes with footage of an actuall alien or whatever wondering around on mars, now that would be amazing