igosaur Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4243321/Mars-methane-discovery-hints-at-presence-of-life.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Astronaut Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Flatulence on Mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch2008 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 This was reported in "The Sun": http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2133475.ece and the German magazine "Bild". Not exactly an overwhelming argument. Perhaps they are just trying to drum up support for the $50 billion dollar manned mission to Mars. If Mars were littlered with diamonds it still wouldn't be worth it to go there. But bringing back a billion microbes that would weigh less than a postage stamp might make sense. They could be studied at the ISS and never threaten the Earth with an Andromeda strain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowThatWeKnow Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The article said: "The level of activity was so great that at times it equalled the amount of the gas released at some of the most methane-rich locations on Earth." While microbial life on Mars is not out of the question, I doubt there is enough for this significant amount of methane detected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Astronaut Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 They probably should have put microscopes on the rover for detecting microorganisms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabsj2 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 i am very certain Mars has life or it existed there sometime in its History Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npts2020 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 i am very certain Mars has life or it existed there sometime in its History I agree. It would be more surprising to me for there never to have been any kind of life. The problem is in proving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devrimci_kürt Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 A change in Mars' climate may have killed off primitive life forms early in the planet's history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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