Posted on 09/10/2025 9:59:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
NASA has announced the discovery of what it believes to be ancient microbial life on the Martian surface.
The new administrator for the space agency, Sean Duffy, said a sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been declared the 'clearest sign of life' ever found on the Red Planet.
In a Wednesday news conference, NASA's Associate Administrator Nicky Fox said: 'This is the kind of signature that we would see that was made by something biological.'
Specifically, researchers have been looking at unusual spots and seed-like shapes in ancient Martian rocks that might point to the existence of tiny life forms in the distant past.
These features, nicknamed 'poppy seeds' and 'leopard spots,' were spotted in mud-like rocks in Neretva Vallis, part of the Jezero Crater where a river existed billions of years ago.
Scientist Joel Hurowitz revealed how these tiny signatures found in the crater pointed to the existence of life on Mars long before most organisms emerged on Earth.
Although the findings have been being talked about for months, Hurowitz noted that scientists needed to gather more data from Neretva Vallis and confirm the results with other researchers before coming to the conclusion that this could be Martian life.
'We are here to say this is exciting and we want to share that news. This could be very real,' Duffy continued.
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If they find any DNA, I say we extract it and splice it into something living down here.
Who cares? Mars is cold and desolate. Maybe libs should go there. 🙄🙄🙄
But the libs say no life in a mother’s womb until ....
A leopard spot is impressive, but I want to see the whole skeleton.
Amazing that the Rats care more about microbes than Human Life
They look more like pieces of rock. What a joke.
The key to the announcement appears later in the article ..
Apparently they have to examine their budgets to see if they can continue the search....
Never mind that the information they are speculating about is weak regarding the presence of ancient(now dead) life
NASA seems to do this every 5-10 years or so....”feed me”, cried the NASA budget.
Exactly - I guess that’s why they have no guilt when they abort a child. They’ll be protecting those microbes on Mars no matter what.
There was the labeled release experiment on the 1976 Mars Viking lander that suggested there was microbial activity on Mars.
Microbes might have been metabolizing a variety of organic compounds that were enriched with radioactive carbon 14 that formed the core of the experiment. The release of the radioactive carbon dioxide, the assumed metabolic biproduct, was detected and the release also followed the Mars diurnal cycle.
Not proof but certainly suggestive.
“ The United States, primarily through NASA, has spent approximately $23.5 billion (in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation) on Mars exploration and investigation from 1960 through fiscal year 2024.”
Yay! Finally, a return on our investment!
No Trees = No Life of worth
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Specifically, researchers have been looking at unusual spots and seed-like shapes in ancient Martian rocks that might point to the existence of tiny life forms in the distant past.
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Although the findings have been being talked about for months, Hurowitz noted that scientists needed to gather more data from Neretva Vallis and confirm the results with other researchers before coming to the conclusion that this could be Martian life.
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'We are here to say this is exciting and we want to share that news. This could be very real,' Duffy continued.
So many qualifiers in the release.
Sounds like it's time to renew NASA's funding, so they, once again, release a statement about how they might have found "proof" of life on Mars.
Sometimes, a rock is just a rock. Of course, when your job depends on finding something, you’ll figure out a way to “find” it.
One question that comes to mind - why are scientists trying so hard to “find” evidence of life on Mars? The stated purpose of the Martian rovers - and the enormous expense entailed- is to look for ancient life.
Why? Are they trying to “prove” that life is self-generating and common?
If they don’t find anything at all, then what?
Not necessarily self generating. It is just as possible that the Creator made life for Mars.
The fact that our scientists cannot find any solid self generation scenario on earth would, at the present time, rule out any “time, chance, water, minerals, energy” self generation of life for Mars also.
But they want tax dollars to find out.
No guarantee that tax dollars couldn’t be shunted to other non Mars projects
Watch out for the Space-Industrial complex.
If “they” don’t find anything, “they” will try and find it on another planet, moon, asteroid, or large comet. “NO” is a difficult word to accept.
Funding. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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