On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:55:06 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Morris"
wrote:

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.

First, we have to know where to look. That's what the Rovers are for.
It looked like hematite from orbit, and now it looks like it up close.
We won't know for sure until we drill into the stuff and see.

Brian