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New Clue for Life on Mars?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-wouldn't-wanna-live-there dept.

thhamm writes "Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result, from data obtained by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), gives a boost to understanding of geological and atmospheric processes on Mars, and provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet."

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  1. It's probably... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's probably a bug that once exposed to humanity will wipe it out.

    all but the 5th planet are yours, oh, you might want to avoid that nasty 4th planet, too..

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  2. Re: silly h00mans by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > The martians have your rover in a containment unit that makes you humans think that you're exploring their world!

    And the funny part is that the containment unit is in Arizona!

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