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imran

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 6

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

Very exciting news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natu … 896335.stm

chaosman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-02-22

Posts: 39

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

Quote:

"There are no known ways for ammonia to be present in the Martian atmosphere that do not involve life," a US Space Agency (Nasa) scientist told BBC News Online.

Yang Liwei Rocket

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Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 993

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

good ol' Mars Express has been getting great data from the Mars surface

check the latest image of the Hellas Rim area

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/mar … ...Rim.jpg

and more news on life on MARS

The most likely source is LIFE!

Distinct whiff of life on Mars

Sunday Times article wrote:

A SOURCE of methane gas has been identified by scientists probing the atmosphere of Mars, showing for the first time a possible location for life on the red planet. 

At the Iceland conference last week he also confirmed that the Nasa craft now surveying Mars, including the rovers, had not been sterilised and were carrying microbes.

“It means that if we find relatively high concentrations, then there must be a local source,” he said.

“The levels we are finding around Meridiani are powerful evidence that there is something emitting it at a steady rate. There is no evidence of vulcanism or tectonic plate movements, so it does favour the conclusion that this methane is of biological origin.”

Nasa spacecraft may have carried bacteria to the Moon, Mars and across the solar system, a senior official with the organisation has admitted

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Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

Interesting quote, YLR.
    Can you give us a link? I'd like to read the whole article.
    Thanks.   

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Yang Liwei Rocket

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Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 993

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

here you go Shaun Barrett

whiff of life on Mars

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … 51,00.html

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No life on Mars

Banned

From: Newyork

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 50

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

Ammonia hoax
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040726/ … ml]Ammonia

atomoid

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From: Santa Cruz, CA

Registered: 2004-02-13

Posts: 252

Re: Mars Express may have found ammonia on Mars

Ammonia hoax... so they jumped the gun...

...he has not detected ammonia, although in a recent conference abstract he had optimistically suggested that his team might have done so... ...If anyone did find ammonia, it would certainly be big news. In theory, ammonia molecules begin to fall apart in the martian atmosphere within an hour of forming. And the most likely source would be the breakdown of proteins, says Mumma. "I'm not aware of any geological processes that generate ammonia," he adds.

but...
   So then, what exactly causes it to break down in Mars' atmosphere? and how is it that http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/pl … tml]Uranus contains AMMONIA as one of the main constituents of its atmosphere? if it breaks down so readily in an environment as "gentle" as Mars compared to something like Uranus, im thinking it probably couldnt possibly be a relic from the formation of the solar system..? what kind of processes create it there? please advise.

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