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NASA: If There Was Life On Mars, It Was Likely Underground

Posted by samzenpus on from the mole-people dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA issued a study today that said if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting environments were most likely below the planet's surface. The hypothesis comes from analyzing tons of mineral data gathered over the years from more than 350 sites on Mars gathered by NASA and European Space Agency Mars space probes."

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  1. The 3rd set of data supporting subsurface H20 ice by kurthr · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was new data this year indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars (SHARAD and MARSIS at different frequencies on two different landers).
    They have estimates for the volume and placement of the ice as well.
    http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/feats/2010/mars_glaciers.html

    An original finding from 2002 based on a single Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument showed excess Hydrogen...
    http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28may_marsice/

    And now even more extensive results from long term surface studies... I find the recent subsurface radar measurements most compelling.