Biology has taught us that if you have water and energy and some organic compounds you can produce life even in the most extreme environments. Basically, life can get a foothold almost anywhere. This forebodes well for the possibility that life existed on Mars sometime in the past or even perhaps today. |
Bunch of rocks, couple hills in the background. Now we're landing near a pole. I mean, I don't know what we're going to see. |
It was kind of a neat idea. We don't know what we are going to hear, except I don't think we are going to hear Elvis. |
NEAR Shoemaker has set a high standard for low-cost planetary exploration. |
Scientists have long sought a sample directly from a known comet because of the unique chemical and physical information these bodies contain about the earliest history of the solar system. |