#Mars Can Support #Life Says McGill Microbiologist

Mars can support life, according to a McGill microbiologist who studies Martian-like environments on Earth. Look for redoubled efforts to find microbial life on Mars for the next few years. R.C.J.


Here's what McGill University says about its own work: McGill’s department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada’s extreme North. Dr. Lyle Whyte, McGill University microbiologist, explains that the Lost Hammer spring supports microbial life, that the spring is similar to possible past or present springs on Mars, and that therefore they too could support life...
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