There might be life on Mars after all...

Elledan

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-07/uosc-unf072701.php

Eventually, NASA was able to recover the data from printouts, luckily preserved by Levin and Straat?and so, Miller was able to pore over the numbers. There were a lot of them?in fact, their analysis is still underway. But even after having crunched just 30 percent of the experiment?s data, Miller was able to find something remarkable?something, he says, that went unremarked-upon in the original papers. "The signal itself not only had a circadian rhythm," declares Miller, "but it had a precise circadian rhythm of 24.66 hours?which is particularly significant, because it?s the length of a Martian day."
 

GagBag

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that would be so cool if life was discovered living beneath the surface of mars, actual living beings with knowledge. its entirely possible in my mind, i think that image that looked like a face that was discovered on the surface was something they left as a sign. not to the extent of the mission to mars movie tho.
 

Elledan

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<< its entirely possible in my mind, i think that image that looked like a face that was discovered on the surface was something they left as a sign. >>

This face, visible on an old photo a Viking vehicle took proved to be a random collection of rocks. Only under a certain angle and with the sun causing many shadows, this 'face' is visible. It's about as interesting as a cloud in the shape of a car.
 

Martin

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Yeah, the face turned out to be just rocks on high res images.


That's some pretty cool news. I wonder what conclusion they'll come to when all of the data is processed...