"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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Mike Morris wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1033640.htm

Above is more evidence that Mars did in fact once harbour
microscopic life. This raises serious questions about the
science payload on the MER rovers. These tell tale
signs have now been found in a large proportion of
Martian rocks so I think the naysayers are losing
credibility.

One cannot help feeling that NASA did not put a biology
payload on the Rovers so that they could get further
funding for such missions down the road.

Umm... From the article:

"The fossils that we have in the meteorite are
the original material - the only difference is
that you need a very high-powered electron
microscope to image them, to see them and
basically whenever we find these fossils here
on Earth, no one ever questions they were made
by bacteria," he said.

Do you have any clue as to what the high-power electron
microscope that the rover would need to carry to see such
would weight? And a biology kit is utterly useless in case
of millions of years old fossils.

You've lost me. My point was that we should be sending
science packages that can either prove or disprove that
life either once did exist on Mars, or perhaps still does
in certain locations.