Fossil Hunting on Mars

[Oxytropidoceras]

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/10.1029/2017JE005478

 

PDF file at:

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/86220/1/McMahon_et_al-2017-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research%3A_Planets.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324904704_A_Field_Guide_to_Finding_Fossils_on_Mars

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

That's wonderful; thanks Paul! I've always loved "astropaleobiology" - I'm sure that if we do find life outside the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely that it'd be fossilised. And it would be nothing like the movie E-T's (probably something much less complex than that).

Thanks again for the resources