Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Searching for life on Mars

Currently NASA is searching for biosignatures they know how to identify on Earth. Yet life on another planet may be very different then life on Earth. For Mars it is important to be able to differentiate life from nonlife no matter what the chemistry, location, or structure. Life detection technologies are being developed to help define life in non-Earth-centric terms.

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