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proxieme
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posted February 17, 2005 09:39 AM           Edit/Delete Message
Exclusive: NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.

The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth. (...)

(Continued in depth at below link)

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html

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trillian
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posted February 17, 2005 09:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message
This is very interesting. Thanks Prox.


There's some very interesting discussion of Mars here:

http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000278.html

Including photos of the planet that weren't tinted and doctored to make Mars look red. In fact, in one, there are blue skies...

I am fascinated.

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proxieme
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posted February 17, 2005 06:55 PM           Edit/Delete Message

Glad you liked it, tril

I'll check out that link, but probably not til this weekend. Cheers, Love, and Fantastic 65 Degree Days in February,

Corri

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proxieme
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posted February 17, 2005 10:49 PM           Edit/Delete Message
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_water_050217.html

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proxieme
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posted February 22, 2005 06:36 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Researchers Say Sea of Ice Found on Mars
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050222/D88DPDV80.html

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proxieme
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posted February 22, 2005 09:46 PM           Edit/Delete Message
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050222_mars_ice.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7013941/

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proxieme
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posted February 28, 2005 09:20 AM           Edit/Delete Message

Martian Ice.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX67D3M5E_index_0.html

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26taurus
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posted February 28, 2005 12:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Mmmmmm, that looks yummy!

Like chocolate.

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pixelpixie
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posted February 28, 2005 02:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pixelpixie     Edit/Delete Message
HEAVENly hash.

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