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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How do we know it wasn’t brought there from here? We’ve sent a lot of junk up there which could have been contaminated with just about anything.
These guys remind me of folks looking for bigfoot. Every crackle, snap, pop in the woods is a bigfoot. Very dark spot, unfamiliar howling is a bigfoot. I’m not debunking bigfoot, just making a comparison between the two.
Don’t forget that everything has a sacred tie in as well.
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