Life on Mars?

[etvisitor7]

:) In "The Mars Mystery" Graham Hancock writes, "Up until early 1998, the question "Is there life on Mars?" could still only be answered, "Nobody knows." With more data at their disposal, however, scientists have formed a range of opinions on the matter. Despite the planet's devastated appearance, many now agree that extremely simple bacteria-like or virus-like microorganisms could have survived beneath the surface. Others feel there is no life at all there now, but do not rule out the possibility that Mars could have had a "flourishing biota" in some distant past epoch.
A key element in the widening scientific debate....is that a number of possible microfossils and chemical evidence for life processes have been detected in chunks of rock from Mars that have reached Earth as meteorites. This evidence must be set alongside the positive tests for life processes....that were carried out by the Viking landers." :ph34r:

[kashi]

I think there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding this question, although there is indeed more evidence supporting life on mars (be is past or present). Isn't it sad that we lost contact with Beagle 2, the probe specifically designed to search for life?