Meteorite hunters scouring Antarctica on snowmobiles discovered something ancient along a stretch of the cold and rocky Allan Hills in 1984 that would later surprise the world. A team of scientists announced 12 years later that the 4-pound Martian meteorite that landed there around 13,000 years ago could be Earth's first glimpse at evidence of life on the Red Planet.
The announcement made headlines. Then-President Bill Clinton even addressed the nation about it on television, recalled Linda Billings, a consultant to NASA's Astrobiology Program and Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
'It was huge news,' she said. 'But over the next few months, the scientific community looked at the evidence presented and the consensus was this is not evidence of microbial life." Read more...
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