[RadioAstronomer]

ping!

[Aracelis]

Thanks for the ping :)

[Sabertooth]

If there's chlorophyl on Mars, it got there from Earth.

[Brett66]

Some Hungarian scientists made a claim of life currently on Mars based on these MGS photos:

Scientists at NASA contend it's an interesting photo of ice melting, who knows? We could spend billions sending a fleet of probes or billions sending humans to solve the mystery. It's a fascinating place.

[PatrickHenry]

Nothing to get worked up over. Upon a more rigorous examination of the data, it turns out to be only parsley.

[fire and forget]

Thanks!

[Nebullis]

Chorophyll! How about something else with the same IR energy?

It's almost not going to be surprising anymore to find life on Mars.

[edwin hubble]

Thanks for the ping!

I have had more than one bright young student tell me that he or she wants to go into exo-biology or astro-biology.

I tell them (with a wink) "It's hard enough for the cosmologists and astrophysicists... unable to account for 90% of their subject matter... You want a field without any subject matter?"
But, of course, with amino acids found in nebulae, comets, meteors, it is probably just a matter of time.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Ping right back atcha, good buddy.

[callisto]

Microscopic structures found on the rims of the globules found on the Martian meteorite. Nanobacteria from Mars?

http://pegasus.phast.umass.edu/a101/images/mars_nanobac2.jpg