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*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Ammonia has been detected in the Martian atmosphere by the European
We may well be on the brink of a momentous breakthrough. Recently,
Spectral evidence of ammonia was obtained by the Planetary Fourier
One possibility the scientists had to rule out was that the ammonia
I'll be dealing with this extraordinary breakthrough in more detail
David Darling
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Issue #22
July 15, 2004
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Mars Express probe. Reacting to the announcement a NASA scientist
says: "There are no known ways for ammonia to be present in the
Martian atmosphere that do not involve life."
methane was found in the Martian atmosphere. This in itself was a
powerful sign that life might be present. But the discovery of trace
amounts of ammonia is even more significant. Ammonia can only
survive for a few hours on Mars before it is broken down. So it must
be being replenished continuously, hour by hour, for there to be any
at all. Release by volcanoes and volcanic vents would be another
possible explanation. But none of these have been detected by any
experiment over the past 40 years. The biological interpretation is
compelling, if not overwhelming.
Spectrometer (PFS) on Mars Express. Professor Vittorio Formisano,
principal investgator for the instrument, is expected to release
details of new findings from the PFS at an international conference
being held next week in Paris. The PFS is sensitive to radiation in
the spectral region of 1.2 - 5 microns and 5 - 50 microns - a region
rich with important molecules such as water and carbon dioxide.
Ammonia has a spectral line at 10 microns.
came from the air bags of the failed Beagle 2 mission. Analysis
revealed that the ammonia's distribution was not consistent with
this explanation.
in Newsletter #23, which will be going out in the next couple of
days.
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