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NASA's Instrument For Detecting Life On Mars

Posted by kdawson on from the knock-knock dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It should also be able to determine if traces of life's molecular building blocks have been produced by anything that was once alive. The device has been tested in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It should be part of the science payload for the ExoMars rover planned for launch in 2013."

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  1. Great! by ArcherB · · Score: 0, Troll

    NOW they invent something that can tell if life was ever there! Now we have to start all over.

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  2. Great news. by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is excellent news, because we're running out of people to kill on our own planet. I can't wait to see who our next enemy is. Maybe we can even enslave the ones we don't nuke the shit out of!