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...wouldn't have lacked for H20. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which pulls the strings on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite, now reports that Earth's neighbor shows the first clear evidence of oceans and widespread thermal activity in its early history -- both crucial elements in any sort of Martian genesis...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
When NASA claimed in 1995 that it had found evidence of ancient life in the Martian meteorite at left, there were plenty of skeptics. Now comes a paper in Science arguing that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly from contamination on Earth rather than bacteria on Mars. That doesn't prove Martian microbes didn't sleep here--but it weakens the case...
Mars: Dead Again? Meanwhile, that Martian rock undergoes an extensive probing ? and now appears much less likely to contain evidence of extraterrestrial life...
Mars: Dead Again? Meanwhile, that Martian rock is given an extensive probing ? and is now much less likely to contain evidence of life...