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Article: New Research Casts Doubt On "Life On Mars" Findings
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 3, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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New research casts doubt over NASA's life on Mars findings,
claiming NASA' evidence can be produced by non-living processes.
The new research, published in the science journal Nature, today,
suggests that tiny, sausage-shaped features in chalk found in a Mars
meteorite one of several strands of evidence cited for alien life
might have been made by basic chemical processes, and did not reveal
the presence of "nanobacteria," as claimed by the NASA team in
August.
Evidence that inorganic chemistry can form "living" structures
came from a study of stromatolites, which are formed from layers of
sediment and range from microscopic to huge features visible from
satellites, and can date back to the ...