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Most scientists believe that Mars was warmer and wetter about 3.6 to four billion years ago, which is the age of the fossils in the meteor. Therefore, scientists say, the odds were good that some form of life existed on the planet...
...People today are very self-centered, and this kind of thing says 'Hey, maybe it isn't just you, your state, your country, your planet. Maybe there's more to this...
...space program will put its full intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for further evidence of life on Mars." The scientists found that the pinpoint-sized flecks contained hydrocarbons, which may be the fossil remains of Martian bacteria, single-celled life forms that thrived on the red planet 3.5 billion years ago. The meteorite, called Allan Hills 84001, contains organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which in this case are said to be the byproducts of metabolic processes. The PAH molecules were recovered from cracks in the rock, which means they were probably deposited after the rock...
This Olympic champion, one of the fastest men on the planet, was not allowed to run in what may have been the race of his life...
...inner core seems to be rotating slightly faster than the surface of the planet...