http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/WH08018.xml&headline=White%20House%20Briefed%20On%20Potential%20For%20Mars%20Life&channel=space


Have you seen this? Wow!

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that would have worked if you hadn't stopped me

:) Thanks MeltWreckage.

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goodie ;-)

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http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/WH08018.xml&headline=White%20House%20Briefed%20On%20Potential%20For%20Mars%20Life&channel=space


Have you seen this? Wow!

. . . Thank You Melt (ps - been alright? Your Artwork? - Mail me - Thanks)

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Sources say the new data do not indicate the discovery of existing or past life on Mars. Rather the data relate to habitability--the "potential" for Mars to support life--at the Phoenix arctic landing site, sources say.

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The key is in the soil and water, and how the two behave together at that site on Mars, not the expected confirmation of water ice at this stage in the mission, Mars investigators told Aviation Week.

The MECA instrument, in its first of four wet chemistry runs a month ago, found soil chemistry that is "Earth-like" and capable of supporting life, researchers said then.

It is intriguing that MECA could have found anything more positive than that, but

NASA and the University of Arizona are taking steps to prevent word from leaking out on the nature of the discovery

made during MECA's second soil test, in which water from Earth was automatically stirred with Martian soil . . .

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