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Life on Mars

03/06/2018 / By David Williams

Scoping out Mars for the best place to land, NASA’s 2020 mission hopes to find evidence of life

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently in the planning stages for a handful of Mars missions, the first of which is scheduled to happen by the year 2020. The space agency aims to find evidence of past life on the Martian planet, by way of examining organic materials on the planet’s surface. […]

01/20/2018 / By David Williams

Proof of water for future explorers: New images from NASA show “underground ice cliffs” on Mars

It has been known for quite some time now that Mars is full of water. Regardless of whether or not there is actually flowing water on the so-called red planet’s surface, scientists from the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) have long confirmed that water is indeed present on the planet. Most of it is in […]

10/19/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Alien life could exist BELOW the surface of Mars, shocked scientists discover

Could there be life on Mars, after all? Scientists now believe it is possible that life may exist on Mars — under the planet’s surface. Experts have found a type of salt in Martian soil, magnesium perchlorate, which would prevent water from freezing underneath the surface. While many people have suspected that Mars was (or […]

08/29/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

SCIENCE CON: NASA claims it will seek life on Mars in 2020 mission, but it already covered up proof of life from the 1976 Viking mission

The Mars 2020 mission will use advanced technology to seek signs of microbial life, but has it already been discovered on the Red Planet? NASA’s upcoming Mars mission scheduled to launch in the July/August 2020 time frame will use X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy in its quest to detect biosignatures on rocks. According to one […]

04/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Has an ancient tree stump been found on Mars?

The surface of Mars may be a dusty wasteland now, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have supported life before, according to alien hunters. As reported by DailyMail.co.uk, alien hunters claim to have discovered photographic evidence that Mars may have been covered with vegetation at one point. An image taken by the Curiosity rover on […]

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