{"id":68,"date":"2005-02-16T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T03:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/02\/16\/life-in-martian-caves\/"},"modified":"2005-02-16T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T03:29:49","slug":"life-in-martian-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/02\/16\/life-in-martian-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Martian Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4597'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/chasma.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"450\"><br \/>\n      WASHINGTON &#8212; A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials<br \/>\n        at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence<br \/>\n        that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained<br \/>\n        by pockets of water.<\/p>\n<p>        he scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center<br \/>\n        in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings<br \/>\n        to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently<br \/>\n        is being peer reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>        What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the<br \/>\n        private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures<br \/>\n        and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to<br \/>\n        those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.    <\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/mars_life_050216.html\">Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/02\/16\/life-in-martian-caves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}