It is reported that NASA will make an announcement within days, possibly as early Monday, November 30th, concerning extraterrestrial life. It is now considered probable that there were once at least simple forms of life on the planet Mars. The ALH 84001 meteorite, found in the Allen Hills, Antarctica, and widely believed to have been blasted off Mars in an asteroid impact, has recently been reexamined using the latest techniques in microscopy. A good case has been made that fossils of bacteria-like organisms exist inside the rock. Other interpretations not involving extraterrestrial life, it is maintained, do not account for the newly ascertained facts. Skeptics of the life on Mars hypothesis are reported to have been convinced by the new work. For more information see:-------http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/24marslife/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6934078.ece

It is reported that NASA will make an announcement within days, possibly as early Monday, November 30th, concerning extraterrestrial life. It is now considered probable that there were once at least simple forms of life on the planet Mars. The ALH 84001 meteorite, found in the Allen Hills, Antarctica, and widely believed to have been blasted off Mars in an asteroid impact, has recently been reexamined using the latest techniques in microscopy. A good case has been made that fossils of bacteria-like organisms exist inside the rock. Other interpretations not involving extraterrestrial life, it is maintained, do not account for the newly ascertained facts. Skeptics of the life on Mars hypothesis are reported to have been convinced by the new work. For more information see:-------http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/24marslife/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6934078.ece

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

This would be a real sensation if it gets confirmed.
It will make things easier to find (to increase the chances/odds of)some kind of life outside our planet, maybe close to home, in our Solar System, like in Saturn moons/satellites.
After all our efforts by sending expensive probes and high-tech telescopes and building an International Space Station in space, it will turn out that a fragment of a billions-year old meteorite, which got slammed off Mars surface, will tell us about extraterrestrial life!
Is this what they call British humor?!?!? LOL

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Today's release on life on Mars from NASA (Johnson Space Center) also contains links to the relevant papers: www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2009/J09-030.html