[Source: Skymania via Scientific American, January 12, 2010]
Final proof that Mars has bred life will be confirmed this year, leading NASA experts believe. The historic discovery will come not on Mars itself but from chunks of the red planet here on Earth. David McKay, Astrobiologist at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, speculates that sometime this year we will discover that Mars has bred life. This discovery will not take place on Mars but rather from meteorites that were found in Antarctic by American and Japanese scientists, as well as a meteorite that fell in Nakhla, Egypt in 1911. McKay states that "
We do not yet believe that we have rigorously proven there is - or was - life on Mars. But we do believe that we are very, very close to proving there is or has been life there." - McKay. Apparently according to the article, "compelling evidence that life may still survive today on Mars was revealed a year ago after NASA detected plumes of methane in the planet's atmosphere."
NOTE: Interestingly enough, all this talk about Mars makes me think of that fact that Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet". Also, in mythology, Mars is the god of war. You put these two things together and you possibly have the Second Horseman of the Apocalypse: "
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword" (
Revelation 6:4).
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