October 09, 2004

Geek Cool:

Meanwhile on Mars...

    By Jack Grant

The rovers have discovered more evidence of past presence of liquid water on the surface of Mars.

Why is this cool? Liquid water is key to life as it exists on Earth, so liquid water on Mars may have also resulted in life starting there as well. Even if all that life is dead now, the presence of life in the past would show that life can evolve elsewhere, which means that life likely exists in at least one other planetary system in the galaxy.

Isn't that cool? I think it is.

Posted by Jack Grant at 11:36 on 9 October 2004
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