NASA and Russian scientists have been selected to take the search for life in the solar system to the frozen reaches of Earth. Richard Hoover of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Prof. Elena A. Vorobyova of Moscow State University will investigate the microbiota found in the permafrost and ice of Siberia, Alaska, and Antarctica.
May 2nd, 1999
Mars Data Hint at Old Hot Springs The SETI League
Mars may once have bubbled with hot springs, warm cozy pools where Martian microbes could have evolved, according to a team of New Mexico researchers. Using data from NASA’s Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, the scientists found chemicals in the Martian soil similar to what’s found around hot springs on Earth.
April 28th, 1999
NASA scientist: We will find living forms on Mars Florida Today
The NASA scientist who claims to have found evidence of past life in three Martian meteorites made a bold prediction Tuesday: Real living creatures – not ancient microfossils – are buried deep beneath the windswept surface of Mars and eventually will be rooted out by robotic or human explorers.
April 1st, 1999
Looking for life in all the weird places
Neil Armstrong received the glory as the first astronaut on the moon, but other earthlings actually beat him to the surface by two years. Stowaways on the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in 1967, a colony of the streptococcus mitus remained stranded on the moon until a rescue several years later by astronauts, who brought the harmless, common bacteria home where they were revived.
March 22nd, 1999
Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars?
The most common form of life on Earth may be tiny forms of bacteria, if new research in Australia is confirmed. And right now they might be living on Mars, as well as in Earth rocks and even inside your body.
March 18th, 1999
Scientists say Nakhla meteorite hints at life on Mars Discovery Channel Canada
Scientists from NASA presented a paper today in Houston that suggests a meteorite from Mars, found here on Earth, may contain evidence of life from the Red Planet. If this seems like familiar news, well, it is and it isn’t. The same scientists made an announcement back in 1996 about a Martian meteorite called ALH 84001 which was found in Antarctica.
March 11th, 1999
New Martian meteorite found
A brown stone the size of a coconut has been identified as only the 14th known meteorite from Mars. It was picked up in the Dar al Gani region of the Libyan Sahara desert last year by an anonymous meteorite hunter.
March 10th, 1999
Magnet theory to life on Mars
Scientists are about to reveal what may be the best evidence yet for past life in a rock from Mars. They hope it will cause their critics to pause for thought instead of dismissing their controversial claims.
March 2nd, 1999
Life on Mars – new claims
Sensational new claims about life on Mars are about to be made by US scientists. Some of the researchers who claimed in 1996 to have found evidence for past life in a Martian meteorite now say they have further evidence to support their theories in one, possibly two, other rocks.