New Evidence Points To Primordial Life On Mars

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Posted on: Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 12:55 CDT

A new isotopic analysis of meteorites that have been in storage on Earth for quite some time points to a very reasonable scientific conclusion that Mars once had sea beds that were warm, wet and rich in organic chemicals.

Dr. John Brandenburg, a former scientist at the Florida Space Institute-University of Central Florida, Kennedy Space Center, says that the meteorites he analyzed, come from rocks in the southern hemisphere of part of Mars. The rocks are 4.5 Billion years old, the same age as ALH84001, which was found in Antarctica in 1984.

Brandenburg says “What we have here is basically oil shale from Mars. They are basically very similar to common oil shale you find on earth. This indicates a large planetary seabed that was formed under atmospheric conditions, that was warm, wet and rich in organics.”

His new paper titled “The CI Carbonaceous Chondrites as the Missing Old Meteorites of Mars” was published this week in The Journal of Cosmology.

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/2041213/new_evidence_points_to_primordial_life_on_mars/index.html

[Orsino]

1. You just had to mention the oil shale, didn't you?

Now Mars is fucked.

Seriously, this is fascinating.

[n2doc]

2. If they can get to Mars, they can get to Titan

And Titan has hydrocarbon oceans!