Could Mars support life?
August 30, 2012
Google+ Hangout on August 29 with astrobiologist Pan Conrad — NASA deputy principal investigator with the Sample Analysis at Mars chemistry lab aboard the Curiosity rover, to learn more about the Mars astrobiology mission.
Her instrument is currently “sniffing” the Martian atmosphere, and will soon start digesting bits of the soil around Curiosity, trying to answer one pressing question: Could Mars support life?
With Fraser Cain and Amy Shira Teitel.
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Comments (3)
by steven
Unfortuantely it would take NASA forever to do it. Private funding will be required, I heard the first inhabitants of mars will be on a reality tv show in order to fund it. Which is a great idea, finally a good reality tv show. It’s unfortunate we had to resort to private funding though, if only our government had unlimited money :(
by Bri
One of the really cool aspects of this research is that they may find remnants of early life on mars. It may have stopped or had to move underground as conditions changed. If we do find it, it would be a snapshot of an early phase, that we could never see on earth.
by DeBee Corley
He** yes.
Push water asteroids by the thousands (or millions) into Mars. Have NASA do it. It would take about 40 million years. Let private investment do it. Take about 100 years.
More mass, Water, Life.