Feb 3rd...
"...the green in the Gusev crater picture or by looking at the development of darker spots toward the South Pole which are tied to seasonal variations, it certainly gives rise to the speculation that there could be algae. "
This is according to Michael McKay, Flight Operations Director, European Space Agency interview conducted by Linda Moulton Howe of earthfiles.com...
GREAT Interview and investigation by Linda....
"Is There Living Green Algae in the Gusev Crater on Mars ?"
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=650&category=Science Here is a close-up image of Gusev Crater taken by ESA Mars Express..
http://www.esa.int/export/externals/images/ob_24_gusev_p.jpg The darker green area is located to the south/southeast of Spirit, maybe approx.....1/4 to 1 mile.....???
The viking 1 & 2 images need to be re-visted and re-examine, since both Viking 1 and 2 missions lasted over 6 years, 24/7/365 until they were turned-off in 1982...?
There are only a few FREE images of Viking 1 and 2 on the NASA website.....the rest of those images are for sale only....The American tax-Payers payed 1 Billion dollars for those missions, and now we must pay to see them, and data...
Unreal !!!!! Vet out
There were no PC, or internet back in 1976-82 so these images obtained by Viking 1 and 2 which numbers in the 100,000 + were never fully studied and view by the public.
The two Viking landers were able to view 6 years of Mars, the summer,winter,day, night,wind storms, movement if all the photos/frames were made into fast-forward movie images
of day by day,week by week, month by month, year to year,etc... We would be able to see and study Mars better, and see the changing seasonal variations, and growth !
Here are the only images that are FREE of Viking 1 and 2..
(1976 til 1982)....There are approx 10 !
Here's are a couple....that aRE FREE !
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html I see green/blue......and some of these ??? rocks have the color Blood red to them , hmmmmmm?!!!
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/mars/marsimg/VL1_pan.gif Here is a winter image from Viking 2....... hmmmm?
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/mars/marsimg/VL2_frost.gif There are more...... I believe 100% +++ Ron levin of Viking Mission Scientist and other scientists of this mission that they FOUND LIFE !!! It's all there, and remember there is editing of some ???, so they were able to view everything
that we are not....
Here's a question....Can Viking 1 and 2 landers be turned-back-ON ???