Europeans Want New Search for Martian Life
European Space Agency scientists said they thought there was life on Mars and wanted a new European mission to the Red Planet to investigate it.
“Hints of life on Mars are getting stronger,” Vittorio Formisano told scientists Friday at the end of a weeklong conference in the Netherlands on the findings from the space agency’s Mars Express mission.
His research team found so much methane on Mars that it was probably produced by some form of life, he said.
Everett Gibson of NASA’s Johnson Space Center said 25% of the 250 scientists at the conference said they believed there was still bacterial life on Mars.
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