NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy
on
extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for
its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that
landed
thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows evidence of microscopic life
on
Mars.
In addition to presenting research that they said disproved some of
their
critics, the scientists reported that additional Martian meteorites
appear
to house distinct and identifiable microbial fossils that point even
more strongly to the existence of life.
"We feel more confident than ever that Mars probably once was, and maybe
still is, home to life," team leader David McKay said at a
NASA-sponsored
conference on astrobiology.
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