Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 9, 2013 @07:07AM from the how's-the-fishing? dept.

astroengine writes "The site where NASA's Mars rover Curiosity landed last year contains at least one lake that would have been perfectly suited for colonies of simple, rock-eating microbes found in caves and hydrothermal vents on Earth. Analysis of mudstones in an area known as Yellowknife Bay, located inside the rover's Gale Crater landing site, show that fresh water pooled on the surface for tens of thousands — or even hundreds of thousands — of years. 'The results show that the lake was definitely a habitable environment,' Curiosity lead scientist John Grotzinger, with the California Institute of Technology, told Discovery News. The finding was announced at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco."

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rock eating microbes by schlachter · 2013-12-09 07:13 · Score: 2, Funny

We welcome our rock eating microbe overlords...

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Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-09 07:37 · Score: 3, Funny

...still searching for new source of NASA funding.