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Hunting martian fossils best bet for locating Mars life, says ASU researcher

02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!

Hunting for traces of life on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer. Of the two, he says, with today's exploration technology we can most easily look for evidence for past life, preserved as fossil "biosignatures" in old rocks.Farmer is reporting on his work today (February 16) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

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