Hot Spot for Life Found on Ancient Mars Volcano!

If life ever existed on Mars, then newly discovered mineral deposits on the flanks of a long-dead volcano would be a good place to dig for its remains. Spotted by a high-powered orbital imager, they’re not the first deposits found on Mars of silica, a mineral used by some simple forms of life, including single-celled algae that evolved early in Earth’s volcanic past.

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But the new deposits are the first from a locale with a definite volcanic pedigree, formerly rich in heat and water, as well as minerals — a locale formerly suited, by any earthly definition, for life. Stand on the slopes of Nili Patera 3.7 billion years ago, and “you would see steam rising up out of the volcano. In the spots we see the deposits, that’s where the highest concentration of steam would be,” said geoscientist Jack Mustard of Brown University. “It’d be like standing on Hawaii, looking across a volcano, seeing the fumaroles where vapors are given off, or standing in Iceland where the hills are steaming.”

Mustard’s findings, co-authored with fellow Brown geoscientist J.R. Skok, were published October 31 in Nature Geoscience. His laboratory is among those that in recent years has processed an extraordinary flow of red planet data, returned by Mars-orbiting spacecraft and surface-exploring robots

This data has moved researchers beyond looking for signs of water — the latest of which was reported just last week, by both the Spirit and Phoenix rovers — to evaluating potentially once-habitable environments in precise detail.
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Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars.”
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Again, more amazing stuff coming out-week after week. Hard to keep up with. Tell me this Jack Mustard doesn't have one cool job. Getting his hands on stuff fresh back from Mars-FIRST. Lucky guy. I wonder if he could be hiding anyting?

So, more compelling evidence of possible life existed/exist on Mars. Gonna be a dam shame if we come to find out we are the last of a great civilazation that inhabited the universe for billions of years. But, due to some crazy event, that all ended and they packed up a few ships and headed to earth-after being on Mars and Moon etc.

Personally, I think every picture should be made available the moment it comes to us. Lets us see!!!!!

I put this on right before I went to bed last night.

I was surprised this one didn't get more comments.

Maybe it was just the posting time.

I hope you enjoy.

This is excellent.

I would love for NASA to say they found life on Mars. But I have a feeling that even if they run across Bigfoot they wouldn't say anything, just chalk it up to be a "rock formation".

We're being prepared for something alright.

Expect the news to ramp up very shortly.

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I have to admit that I am beginning to think that disclosure is coming soon.

It just may not be the disclosure we think it is going to be.