Concerning the the product of good meteors--Meteorites.
Last week in the journal Astrobiology was published
"Putative Indigenous Carbon-Bearing Alteration Features in Martian Meteorite Yamato 000593"
With the last sentence of the study concluding:
"...textural and compositional
similarities to features in terrestrial samples, which have been interpreted as biogenic, imply the intriguing possibility that the martian features were formed by biotic activity"
Question: Are you intrigued? And just personally, if you were forced to give a probability to this possibility, how would you place the likelihood of a biogenic vs abiogenic origin to these features in Yamato, Nakhla, etc.?
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Concerning the the product of good meteors--Meteorites.
Last week in the journal Astrobiology was published "Putative Indigenous Carbon-Bearing Alteration Features in Martian Meteorite Yamato 000593"
With the last sentence of the study concluding: "...textural and compositional similarities to features in terrestrial samples, which have been interpreted as biogenic, imply the intriguing possibility that the martian features were formed by biotic activity"
Question: Are you intrigued? And just personally, if you were forced to give a probability to this possibility, how would you place the likelihood of a biogenic vs abiogenic origin to these features in Yamato, Nakhla, etc.?
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