[SKRIVA] Bevis för liv på Mars?

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 01:12:53 +0200
Enligt ett nyligt pressmeddelande från NASA kan man ha funnit bevis för liv på 
Mars (existerande, eller gammalt sådant):
 
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2951855/Nasa-Evidence-of-life-on-mars.html
 
"A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form 
of pond scum - the building blocks of life as we know it. 
NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent 
millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of 
extraterrestrial life. 
The results are so promising boffins have already planned a host of other 
missions to discover whether there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. 
The recent missions have gathered evidence of sulphates on Mars, a strong 
indication there is water on the planet and therefore life. ...
But the NASA boffins said the recent missions have gone further than any others 
in proving there is life on Mars. 
They were particularly excited about the discovery of a sulphate called gypsum 
which, it has emerged recently, is found in large quantities among fossils in 
the Mediterranean. /Vilket är vad man tydligen kallar ett område på Mars. Har 
inget med jordens Medelhav att göra./
Jack Farmer, researcher at the Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, 
said he was "optimistic" there was - or had been - life on Mars. 
Another of the scientists Bill Schopf, researcher at the University of 
California in Los Angeles, added: "One, thanks to Opportunity and the rovers 
and orbital imaging it is clear that there are literally vast areas of Mars 
that are carpeted with various sorts of sulphates, including gypsum. 
"Two, it turns out on earth there just hasn't been hardly any work done at all 
to show whether gypsum ever includes within it preserved evidence of former 
life. 
"The age doesn't matter. We just didn't know that fossils and organic matter 
and things like that were well preserved within gypsum. 
"So, three, it turns out that now we have made that first step we are going to 
find out how widespread it is in other sulphate deposits on earth. 
"And those lines of evidence will then give us a way to justify going to Mars 
and looking at gypsum because it looks as though based on these findings that 
is going to turn out to be a really excellent place to find evidence of ancient 
life, regardless of age, if in fact it is there." 
 
--Ahrvid

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