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Posted on 09/19/2013 1:34:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Curiosity rover's failure to detect methane on Mars is a blow to theories that the planet may still host some types of life, say mission scientists.
Telescopes and satellites have reported seeing small but significant volumes of the gas, but the six-wheeled robot can pick up no such trace.
On Earth, 95% of atmospheric methane is produced by microbial organisms.
Researchers have hung on to the hope that the molecule's signature at Mars might also indicate a life presence.
The inability of Curiosity's sophisticated instrumentation to make this detection is likely now to dent this optimism.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Maybe its been so long that even microbial life has vanished
Mars is more sterile than an operating room.
Too bad. Keep looking.
Maybe whoever lives there doesn’t fart...
Maybe Martians don’t take dumps??
Or maybe there was never any life in the first place.
Maybe the use Fabreze
NASA says there is NO life on Mars: Curiosity rover hasn’t discovered any clues…
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But the scientists responsible for project funding assured us there was atmospheric methane on Mars?
Reminds me of the Steve Martin bit about the “fart zone layer”. Everyone’s farts go to the fart zone which is why we need to protect the ozone layer. Looks like Mars has no fart zone.
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