Making Sense of Mars Methane- June 10, 2008 Research on methane at a Mexican salt flat could help reveal the source of methane that has been detected in the atmosphere of Mars. But first scientists have to decipher the unique and seemingly contradictory - isotopic signature of the Mexican methane.http://www.marsnews.com/archives/2008/06/10/making_sense_of_mars_methane.html Could microbes on Phoenix survive on Mars- June 7, 2008 The Phoenix lander may have been coated with dozens of species of bacteria when it left Earth and some may be hardy enough to scrape by on Mars, two new studies suggest. But researchers say the parts of the lander that will contact water ice on Mars which might provide a toehold for life have been carefully sterilised, minimising the chances that terrestrial life could colonise the planet. NASA has long realised that spacecraft could potentially seed other planets with terrestrial life. To.http://www.marsnews.com/archives/2008/06/06/could_microbes_on_phoenix_survive_on_mars.html |