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Mars methane discovery hints of microbial life?
Topic Started: Dec 17 2014, 04:54 AM (78 Views)
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Methane gas discovery on Mars may hint at some form of life on the planet

Newly-released data from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover may reignite the debate of the possibility of life on the Red Planet.

New rover findings suggests that low levels of methane skyrocketed ten-fold over a two-month period. The same gas in Earth’s atmosphere is mostly the result of daily biological activity.

These exciting results now suggests that methane is being produced or vented, and quickly dispersed around the Gale Crater landing site.
“Strictly speaking, our observations are evidence for methane production on Mars, and in themselves cannot directly provide evidence of microbial life,” said Chris Webster, lead author form NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “However, from our positive detection of methane on Mars, we cannot rule out the possibility that both the low background level and the high methane values originate in part from microbial activity (methanogenesis).

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