NASA:Conditions are right on Mars to have supported ancient life
The Columbus Dispatch - March 12, 2013 04:08 PM
NASA scientists are reporting today that the conditions were right on ancient Mars to have supported life.
Yeah. Martians. You know it.
NASA says that an analysis of a rock sample collected by the rover Curiosity shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. That, my friends, is life.
According to a release, scientists "identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon - some of the key chemical ingredients for life - in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month."
The data suggest that the Yellowknife Bay area the rover is exploring "was the end of an ancient river system or an intermittently wet lake bed that could have provided chemical energy and other favorable conditions for microbes."
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