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ET on Mars, claim researchers
By Leigh Dayton, Science writer, and Steven Swinford
July 15, 2003
NASA found evidence of life on Mars in 1976, but dismissed the findings as impossible, two British astronomers claim.
Now, evidence from missions such as the Mars Global Surveyor suggests that the early observation was correct after all.
For instance, newly released high-resolution images of the planet's surface show a valley which might have been originally formed by liquid water, the stuff of life.
According to Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper, independent astronomy writers and broadcasters, one of three biology experiments conducted on Mars by the two Viking landers obtained clear evidence that there were living microbes on the red planet.
The experimental instrument, designed by engineer Gilbert Levin, head of the Biospherics company in the US, exposed samples of the Martian soil to an Earth-like solution of water and nutrients known to exist in meteorites and interstellar clouds.
"It was the kind of solution that bacteria on Earth would love to slurp," Mr Henbest, in Sydney for the International Astronomical Union's 24th general assembly, said....
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