Martian Rocks and evidence of life
Lee Spencer (spencerl@swau.edu)
Wed, 04 Jun 1997 20:08:11 -0500The probability of life on Mars has taken a serious hit with the
publication in Nature (387:377 22 May 97) of a letter from Scott et al. of
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology of evidence that the
so-called low temperature carbonates of the so-called Martian rocks were in
all probability the result of shock melting of monominerals which migrated
into cracks in the pyroxene and solidified in seconds. Thus they could not
have contained living microorganisms. But in all probability we will go
and look anyway....
Lee A. Spencer, Ph.D.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Earth History Research Center
Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, TX 76059