Word: bacterias
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...untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...
Among other images, one revealed carbonate globules--circular features closely associated with fossils of ancient bacteria on Earth. Another showed what seemed to be colonies of sluglike creatures...
...chances that a primitive creature secreted in this rock may survive such a journey are beginning to look surprisingly good. It takes 10 million years or so for a piece of Earth to reach Mars, and some scientists argue, on the basis of organisms trapped in ancient amber, that bacteria can survive even longer...
Gould speculated that bacteria of the kind found in the meteorite "probably almost automatically arise when you get Earth-like conditions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even if the reports of the discovery of alien bacteria from Mars turn out to be mistaken, the enthusiasm developing in the wake of yesterday's announcement has some serious implications for the future of planetary research. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin asked for a "robust program of exploration" of Mars, and it seems he may get it. On Wednesday, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would follow up the discovery with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight...