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Scientists Hope This Tool Could Identify Tiny Fossils on Mars, Revealing Hints to Potential Early Life on the Planet
Microorganisms first appeared on Earth in ancient bodies of water around 3.7 billion years ago. But while Mars might have ...
Image: The fossilized remains of Calothrix, a common bacterium in Yellowstone National Park hot springs, show like branches of a shrub in this microscopic image. The “branches” are the bacteria’s ...
The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify ...
UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils — 650 million to 850 million years old — preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done ...
NASA has unveiled the science goals for Curiosity's successor, the 2020 Mars rover, which is scheduled for launch in -- you guessed it -- 2020. Whereas Curiosity is capable of analyzing Mars' past ...
Scientists searching for the fossilized remains of ancient microbes on Mars now have a better idea of what signs they should ...
Researchers used a miniaturized laser mass spectrometer to identify signs of fossils in a gypsum quarry in Algeria. They suggest the same tool could find early ...
The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify ...
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