From Space.com:
A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.
The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.
What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
Must be part of that intelligent design thing.
“Methane signatures…” Martian farts?
From Martian cows – the leading contributors of Martian global warming.
Really, I’m surprised this story hasn’t gotten more widespread coverage; I read this yesterday and it was an exclusive space.com story.
Maybe it’s because the media doesn’t want to seem too liberal – it might creep into the story that the Earth isn’t flat, nor is it the center of the universe. And that nasty word “evolution” might pop up too.
I’m kidding, of course…