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Perseverance Rover Lands Safely - Will Search for Ancient Life on Mars
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NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars The science mission will launch the first drone to fly on another planet, attempt making oxygen in space, and search for signs of ancient life. Sarah Scoles, Wired, February 18, 2021 NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars, PBS Yours Paul H. -
The rock in the image was actually found on Mars. I know it's probably not a fossil as NASA has addressed this saying it was likely formed by water and wind erosion. Please don't take this post the wrong way. I am not interested in perpetuating anything unscientific. I am just curious about the topic; how we can analyze rocks like these found on another planet. If one were on the team, and we spot something like this, to the untrained eye it would look like an astonishing find. But we have to be objective, and we have no idea what fossils on Mars might look like, in the unlikely case they actu
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"Martian" mineral builds mounds and might preserve fossils
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Strange 'martian' mineral mounds rise up from Utah's Great Salt Lake By Tom Metcalfe https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/rare-salt-formations-appear-along-the-great-salt-lake/2020/01/10/5b581e9c-33e5-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html https://www.space.com/martian-mineral-mounds-rise-utah-salt-lake.html https://www.lite1065.com/2020/01/16/rare-martian-mineral-mounds-appear-in-utahs-great-salt-lake/ What rare environmental mounds at Great Salt Lake could teach us about Mars. Utah geologists document spring mounds for first time -
The search for extra-terrestrial fossils is looking more promising. But, I suppose one mustn’t get one’s hopes too high. NASA's Mars 2020 Will Hunt for Microscopic Fossils “Scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the rover will land on Feb. 18, 2021. A paper published today in the journal Icarus identifies distinct deposits of minerals called carbonates along the inner rim of Jezero, the site of a lake more than 3.5 billion years ago. On Earth, carbona
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A field guide to finding fossils on Mars. (open access paper)
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McMahon, S., Bosak, T., Grotzinger, J.P., Milliken, R.E., Summons, R.E., Daye, M., Newman, S.A., Fraeman, A., Williford, K.H. and Briggs, D.E.G., 2018. A field guide to finding fossils on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.vol. 123, no. 5, pp. 1020-1040 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2017JE005478 McMahon, S., The chemistry of fossilization on Earth and Mars. http://www.portlandpresspublishing.com/sites/default/files/biochemist/Biochemist Space issue Dec 2018/BioDEC18_chemistry of fossilization pg 28.pdf -
Below is a fascinating dissertation about the Archean. Archean Paleosols on Earth and Mars Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Naturwissenschaften des Fachbereichs für Geowissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin vorgelegt von Sami Nabhan PDF file at https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/13122 Yours, Paul H.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Chemical Building Blocks For Life On Mars, Morning Edition, June 7, 2018 https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617235884/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-chemical-building-blocks-for-life-on-mars NASA finds ancient organic material, mysterious methane on Mars, June 7, 2018 by Sean Potter, NASA https://phys.org/news/2018-06-nasa-ancient-material-mysterious-methane.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7154 The abstract is at: Eigenbrode, J.E., Summons, R.E., Steele, A., Freissinet, C., Millan, M.,
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Looking For Fossils On The Surface Of Mars Brian Koberlein, Forbes, May 28, 2018 https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2018/05/29/looking-for-fossils-on-the-surface-of-mars/ McMahon, S., Bosak, T., Grotzinger, J.P., Milliken, R.E., Summons, R.E., Daye, M., Newman, S.A., Fraeman, A., Williford, K.H. and Briggs, D.E.G., 2018. A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. First published: 02 May 2018 https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JE005478 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2017JE0054
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I can imagine a Hollywood block-buster telling a story of a few brave TFF members looking for fossils on Mars https://www.slashgear.com/curiosity-finds-strange-tiny-mars-feature-trace-fossils-possible-05513891/
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NASA's Amazing 2020 Mars Mission to Search for Ancient Fossils --"Unlike Earth, Mars is a Beautifully Preserved Fossil" The Daily Galaxy, October 19, 2016 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/10/nasas-amazing-2020-mars-mission-to-search-for-ancient-fossils-unlike-earth-mars-is-a-beautifully-pre.html NASA’s Bold Plan to Hunt for Fossils on Mars National Geographic, October 17, 2016 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/alien-fossils-nasa-exploring-mars-2020-space-science/ NASA Plans To Search For Martians: Where Will They
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Digitate Opaline Silica Structures (Biosignatures ?) Found on Mars
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Scientists Think They Finally Found Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars. by Sage Lazzaro, Observer http://observer.com/2016/11/scientists-think-they-finally-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars/ Ruff, S. W., and J. D. Farmer, 2016, Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile. Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13554 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13554 Received: 14 April 2016, Accepted: 13 October 2016 Published online: 17 November 2016 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13554 Yo- 1 reply
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Hello, there is an intriguing spiral structure seen Mars Curiosity rover - it looks like an ammonite. original image:http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00551/mcam/0551MR2233051000E1_DXXX.jpg could this be what it seems? for more information please see also: http://www.mars-tourist-guide.co.uk/curiosity/detail.html?s=551&i=MAST_RIGHT&p=0551MR2233051000E1_DXXX
