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What's in there? Scientists fascinated after NASA orbiter photographs open crater leading into underground cavern on Mars The Daily Mail. Excerpts:
Nasa scientists are baffled as to what - or maybe even who? - created this unusual hole on the surface of Mars. The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of the Red Planet's Pavonis Mons volcano. It appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated to the right of the opening.
Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life.
These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers. The images were taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars.
Nice. UFO Blogger. Excerpts:
.. A new study exposed the fact that NASA had discovered the alien life on Mars — several decades ago. A team of scientists claim one of the early Mars lander missions actually found life, but the data was misinterpreted at the time.
"They say they found bacteria when searching data collected 30 years ago by NASA's Viking mars robot. Researchers say that what scientists thought was simple geology is actual bacterial activity." (Therefore, evidently, easily dismissed..)
The Viking mission was the first to show conclusive evidence of water on Mars, but they also looked for evidence of life in soil samples.
More background on the video at the link.. It took NASA 36 years to either "re-interpret" data or tell us about it? NASA kind-of admitted weakness regarding their data analysis, didn't they? Still, this wouldn't be NASA's most ridiculous moment, so, maybe..
Also: Did Humans Come From Mars?
We all could be, scientists say — and an MIT-developed instrument might someday provide the proof Old article, but what the hell.. MIT News. Excerpts:
Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that's the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard could provide the clinching evidence.
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The idea is based on several facts that have now been well established. First, in the early days of the solar system, the climates on Mars and the Earth were much more similar than they are now, so life that took hold on one planet could presumably have survived on the other. Second, an estimated one billion tons of rock have traveled from Mars to Earth, blasted loose by asteroid impacts and then traveling through interplanetary space before striking Earth's surface. Third, microbes have been shown to be capable of surviving the initial shock of such an impact, and there is some evidence they could also survive the thousands of years of transit through space before arriving at another planet.
So the various steps needed for life to have started on one planet and spread to another are all plausible. Additionally, orbital dynamics show that it's about 100 times easier for rocks to travel from Mars to Earth than the other way. So if life got started there first, microbes could have been carried here and we might all be its descendants.
So.. Mission To Mars is partially a documentary?
You decide. Satellite photo analysis of Mars is sometimes like seeing objects in clouds: People see what they want to see. This feels different. If this is a hoax, it's a good one. I'll post this video without further comment, and you see for yourself. Tell me what you think..
Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life.
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