NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water In Martian Meteorite

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at NASA and JPL have found evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite, reviving debate over life on Mars. 'In this new study, Gibson and his colleagues focused on structures deep within a 30-pound (13.7-kilogram) Martian meteorite known as Yamato 000593 (Y000593). The team reports that newly discovered different structures and compositional features within the larger Yamato meteorite suggest biological processes might have been at work on Mars hundreds of millions of years ago. ... Analyses found that the rock was formed about 1.3 billion years ago from a lava flow on Mars. Around 12 million years ago, an impact occurred on Mars which ejected the meteorite from the surface of Mars. The meteorite traveled through space until it fell in Antarctica about 50,000 years ago.'"

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[trewornan]

Jeebus NASA give it a rest can't you - you've been and looked and there ain't no life on Mars - just let it go already.

Getting pretty damn old...

[evilviper]

Why is it that every damn mouse fart non-story about Mars gets posted to the front-page here, and always with a heavy-handed spin on how THIS ONE is finally going to be the bit of evidence that proves there was life on Mars? It's as if both NASA, SETI, and /. think that if they just try hard enough, they can *will* reality to match up with their dogma and fantasies about little green men.

All the indirect conjecture anyone can provide is WORTHLESS. Even irrefutable evidence of life on Mars would still be pretty close to worthless. It won't get remotely interesting until there are fossils and DNA to study. Without that, it's just a trivial footnote in a text book.

Quick... tell us the latest Apple rumor, and the latest bit of global warming proof/denial!