A Martian meteorite which crashed into the Moroccan Desert in 2011 has yielded tantalizing clues which strongly suggest that it harbored organic material while still on Mars. Named “Tissint” after a town near to where it was discovered following a a fiery nighttime descent, there is no doubt that the meteorite came from Mars, and […]
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ While the flashy new Curiosity rover is celebrating the completion of its first full Martian year, the much smaller but remarkably resilient Opportunity rover is still going strong in its 10th (Earth) year on Mars. And as JPL reports, perched on the rim of the Endeavour crater and scoured […]
For those who remember, the discovery of possible signs of ancient microbial life on Martian meteorite ALH 84001 sparked enormous debate in 1996, temporarily convincing a great many people that we had at last found conclusive evidence of life on Mars. As the years rolled on, alternate explanations appeared to answer the questions raised by […]
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