Dig Deeply to Seek Life on Mars

do not take life on mars lightly.
1. if you say it is there the pope will hang you
2.If you find one alive it will eat you.
3 If we really knew they would open fire with atomic tipped missiles.

I am very afraid of life on mars. I've seen people (catholic preists) turn
into nasty black shiny beetles with a long snout and beady black eyes, 6
legs and palps near their mouths to feed of the moss that grows near their
caves in the mountains.

There are 8 factions of martians all fighting over control of the earth and
for 8000 years they have been atom bombing each other, they keep us down
with religion and their security is the enforced faith punishble by death
for disbelieve is that there is no life on mars.

When Jesus cast out demons he was casting out martians because they get
inside people and take them over like a crab sends its fibres all round the
body.

They got him!

I know two near me but there may be more.


There main bases are in caverns under the surface where they have advanced
technology that can teleport them to earth and back.

They are nasty cruel and introverted a typical case of cryptic life.

They do debate if they should travel to the stars but prefer to stay at
home. They nuke each other over that too.
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Dig deeply to seek life on Mars
AGU Release No. 07-03
29 January 2007

American Geophysical Union
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WASHINGTON - Probes seeking life on Mars must dig deeply into young
craters, gullies, or recently exposed ice to have a chance of finding
any living cells that were not annihilated by radiation, researchers
report in a new study. One promising place to look for them is within
the ice at Elysium, site of a recently discovered frozen sea, they
say.

Current probes designed to find life on Mars cannot drill deeply
enough
to find living cells that may exist well below the surface, according
to
the study. Although these drills may yet find signs that life once
existed on Mars, the researchers say, cellular life could not survive
incoming radiation within several meters [yards] of the surface. This
puts any living cells beyond the reach of today?s best drills.

The study, to be published 30 January in the journal Geophysical
Research Letters, maps cosmic radiation levels at various depths,
taking
into account surface conditions in various areas of Mars. The lead
author, Lewis Dartnell of University College London, said: "Finding
hints that life once existed - proteins, DNA fragments, or fossils -
would
be a major discovery in itself, but the Holy Grail for astrobiologists
is finding a living cell that we can warm up, feed nutrients, and
reawaken for studying."

"Finding life on Mars depends on liquid water surfacing on Mars,"
Dartnell added, "but the last time liquid water was widespread on Mars
was billions of years ago. Even the hardiest cells we know of could
not
possibly survive the cosmic radiation levels near the surface of Mars
for that long."

Unlike Earth, Mars is not protected by a global magnetic field or
thick
atmosphere, and for billions of years it has been open to radiation
from
space. The researchers developed a radiation dose model and quantified
variations in solar and galactic radiation that penetrates the thin
Martian atmosphere down to the surface and underground. They tested
three surface soil scenarios and calculated particle energies and
radiation doses both on the surface and at various depths underground,
allowing them to estimate the survival times of any cells.

The team found that the best places to look for living cells on Mars
would be within the ice at Elysium, because the frozen sea is
relatively
recent - it is thought to have surfaced in the last five million years
- and
so has been exposed to radiation for a relatively short period of
time.
Even here, though, any surviving cells would be out of the reach of
current drills. Other ideal sites include young craters, because the
recently impacted surface has been exposed to less radiation, and
gullies recently discovered in the sides of craters. Those channels
may
have flowed with water in the last five years and brought cells to the
surface from deep underground.

The study was funded by the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Swiss National Science
Foundation, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and
Research.

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Title:

"Modelling the surface and subsurface Martian radiation environment:
Implications for astrobiology"


Authors:

Lewis Dartnell:
Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and
Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, London,
United Kingdom;

L. Desorgher:
Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;J. M.
Ward:
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
College
London, London, United Kingdom;

A. J. Coates:
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London,
Dorking,United Kingdom.


Citation:

Dartnell, L. R., L. Desorgher, J. M. Ward, and A. J. Coates (2007),
Modelling the surface and subsurface Martian radiation environment:
Implications for astrobiology, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L02207,
doi:10.1029/2006GL027494, in press.


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