Life on Mars

 

This article is not a review of the surreal 2000's BBC TV drama; in this case I'm talking literally about life on Mars, the red planet. NASA has announced that the Perseverence probe has discovered what it was designed to search for. It was dropped onto a particular part of Mars that was thought to have prospects for signs of life. It has been driving around the area for a number of years and now has found some rocks which have chemical readings we associate with life. Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first time that has happened. There was the "Mars meteorite" that had microfossils from life in the distant past that came from Mars. The Viking lander in 1976 found some traces of possible present life; not just some from the past, but maybe something alive now. Also Rhawn Joseph has analyzed some of the data and found larger fossils, for example see: https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=150&part=1 and the links below. The new evidence consists of something called "leopard spots" which are unmistakable signatures of organic processes; probably just microbes, but still they were alive. They are probably the oldest forms of life ever discovered on any planet, including earth. When they crawled across the Martian surface life had not yet emerged on earth. For further study the International Mars Sample Return mission will have to go ahead and that could take years; but if it is successful it will carry pieces of Martian mineral back to earth to be examined. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUqvXSSAxw. This is really interesting and it's good we've found it. It could indicate that maybe life on earth is not so unique after all; it emerges easily whenever the right environemental conditions arrise. Despite this, I am concerned about NASA's timing. I hope this bombshell will not be used to distract people's attention away from 3I/Atlas or form a convenient excuse not to turn the orbiter cameras towards it, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html. The good news is that tricks like that often backfire, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/breaking-news-ufos-were-psyop.html. I'm curious to see how this story develops.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/08/mars-monster.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/09/water-on-mars.html.