[meteorite-list] 13 years later - Martian meteorite surrenders new secrets

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:20:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <77392.56323.qm_at_web51711.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

13 years later -

Martian meteorite surrenders new secrets of possible life

BY CRAIG COVAULT
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: November 24, 2009

Compelling new data that chemical and fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars was carried to Earth in a Martian meteorite is being elevated to a higher plane by the same NASA team which made the initial discovery 13 years ago.

Sources tell Spaceflight Now that the new data are providing a powerful new case for the Allen Hills Meteorite to have carried strong evidence of Martian life to Earth -- evidence that is increasingly standing up to scrutiny as new analytical tools are used to examine the specimen.

The latest findings are the product of new research using more advanced High Resolution Electron Microscopy than was in existence when the initial findings were made and announced by NASA and the White House in 1996.

Those laboratory sensors are being focused directly on carbonate discs and associated tiny magnetite crystals present inside the meteorite Allen Hills ALH 84001.

More at:

<http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/24marslife/>
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