SCIENTISTS in the US and Europe say they have found “conclusive evidence” of
ancient life on Mars after taking another look at a 3.9-billion-year-old Martian
meteorite retrieved from Antarctica in 1984.
They have discovered long chains of magnetite crystals that could only have
come from living organisms, according to Imre Friedmann of NASA’s Ames Research
Center in Moffat Field, California.
But the findings, released as Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, have
reignited the controversy over whether traces in the rock are from Martian or
Earth bacteria, or some non-biological process. In 1996, NASA announced that it
had found the imprints…
