Friday, August 24, 2007

Here we go again . . .

Study: Martian soil may contain life

The search for life on Mars appeared to hit a dead end in 1976 when Viking landers touched down on the red planet and failed to detect biological activity.

But Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, said on Friday the spacecraft may in fact have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.

His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

another request for funding..so convenient..I wonder when the taxpayers (already melded into technology) will reject their roles as ATM machines for these politically hacked groups like NASA and their flunkys. Recently, the Europeans want to send a probe, to ascertain why 2 U.S. older satellites are slowing down..describing the latter as a potential assault on the known laws of physics..a rationale Something even PT Barnum himself would be envious

SyS