MargueriteBee
23rd June 2010, 06:25
Scientist Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said: "This raises the probability substantially that life was there or still survives at the present.
"We think the probability is much higher now based on this evidence."
The bugs that made it may have vanished millions of years ago, leaving the methane frozen under the planet's surface.
Experts speculate that the methane is being emitted as a waste product by organisms called Methanogens living in water beneath underground ice.
And they would have to be alive today because the methane would otherwise have been lost from the Martian atmosphere.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2133475.ece#ixzz0reeyrcSI
(sorry for the typo)
http://microbiology.suite101.com/article.cfm/methanogens
"We think the probability is much higher now based on this evidence."
The bugs that made it may have vanished millions of years ago, leaving the methane frozen under the planet's surface.
Experts speculate that the methane is being emitted as a waste product by organisms called Methanogens living in water beneath underground ice.
And they would have to be alive today because the methane would otherwise have been lost from the Martian atmosphere.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2133475.ece#ixzz0reeyrcSI
(sorry for the typo)
http://microbiology.suite101.com/article.cfm/methanogens