Is there life on Mars? Methane ‘plumes’ hints at presence of organisms on Red Planet



UK Daily Mail
Thursday, Jan 15, 2008

Nasa scientists have detected ‘plumes’ of methane gas on Mars, raising hopes of finding evidence of life on the Red Planet, it was claimed today.

The gas was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes. An announcement later today is expected to confirm NASA have found the strongest evidence yet of organisms just below the Martian soil.

The latest NASA findings are expected to confirm studies by Europe’s Mars Express probe, which reported signs of methane in 2004.

The level of activity on the Red Planet at times was believed to equal the amount of the gas released at some of the most methane-rich locations on Earth.

Brad Bebout, a NASA microbiologist, said if methane is present in the atmosphere of Mars, then something must be producing it on the planet now, because the gas is broken down by sunlight within 300 years.

Most methane on Earth is created by primitive microbes, although some is produced by reactions between water and hot, carbon-bearing rocks. It has not yet been established if either of these are the cause for methane on the Red Planet.

But British scientist Professor Colin Pillinger, who masterminded the unsuccessful Beagle 2 mission to Mars in 2003, said he believed the gas pointed to the existence of life on the planet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1116766/Life-Mars-Methane-plumes-tantalising-hints-presence-organisms-Red-Planet.html

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LOL! How funny, here's tax dollars at work. ALIEN FARTS!

Tax dollars for hot air?

can we now blame them for global warming?

Yep, Martian Industry, without checks into their Methane output is indeed responsible for Galactic warming.

Come on.
You know its exhaust fans from the martian civilizations living below ground.

LMAO

I'm reminded of that movie, Periscope down, Where Kelsey Grammars submariner crew has their position betrayed by the Cooks long winded fart.

Can you just imagine: " Saargnoort, you fool, you knew the earthlings were watching, I told you not to eat those Saturnite chitlins...now we have to shut down the Mk3 Space Modulator. This is coming out of your rations!"