Monday, 3 June 2019

Looking for life on Mars? Look for pasta-shaped rocks

Filamentous rocks, like these seen at Yellowstone National Park, are created by strands of bacteria, and ...

Alien life is almost certainly out there somewhere, but because it's most likely microscopic, it probably won't be easy to spot. Instead we might need to keep an eye out for other biomarkers, which could be detected in the atmosphere, soil or water of a planet. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have come up with a new and fairly obvious sign of life: pasta-shaped rocks.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2QD6FA8

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