NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team has reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week. This investigation offers support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows evidence of microscopic life on Mars. Even more evidence is now being brought to light about Martian meteorites and how they appear to house distinct and identifiable microbial fossils that point even more strongly to the existence of life.
"We feel more confident than ever that Mars probably once was, and maybe still is, home to life," team leader David McKay said at a NASA-sponsored conference on astrobiology. Much work is currently being done to prepare for missions to alien planets to understand how life on other planets to include Mars is possible. Check out the link below for more information.
