Undersea Chesapeake Crater Offers Hints to Mars Life
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 16:28
in Astronomy & Space
A bloom of microbes detected near a crumbling underwater crater suggests that early Mars may have also hosted life in subsurface areas struck by asteroids.
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