Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00492)

Cass,
Thanks for the post and comments. The Viking finding back in the 1970's 
was very controversial and like a lot of other scientists before him Levin had 
to suffer the thrornes of rejection by his peers, but it seems fairly certain 
he will finially have balm from the Rovers as they have continued to reveal 
additional basis with present time findings. Not just the Rovers but the ESA Mars 
experiments have also lent credence to the Past of a watery Mars that can 
have had life at least as bacteria and that is a monumental benchmark in itself. 
The great mystery to JPL and NASA is who is cleaning off the the solar arrays 
on the Rovers, they have yet to explain an acceptable mechanism scientifically 
for that, it wasn't the Blueberrys. One thing they need to do in a future 
mission is incorporate biological detection experiment on the landers.

John


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