A 4-billion-year-old meteorite found in the 1980s was said to contain evidence of life on Mars until scientists disproved the theory on Thursday.
A spaced-out theory that claimed evidence of Martian life may have been debunked by scientists after a decades-long debate that alienated some skeptical researchers.
A team from the Carnegie Institution for Science, led by Andrew Steele, said in a study published in the journal Science that the compounds were not the result of living creatures, but by salty groundwater water flowing over the rocks for a long period of time. Experts said the compounds were not the result of living creatures, but salty groundwater water flowing over the rocks for a long period of time.“While the data presented incrementally adds to our knowledge of , the interpretation is hardly novel, nor is it supported by the research,” wrote Kathie Thomas-Keprta and Simon Clemett, astro material researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.