Martian Meteorites and Fossil Martians 

 1996: Team of NASA scientists made the following claim:
A meteorite which came from Mars has signs of fossilized bacterial life.
Wow.
Alan Hills 840001

This meteorite had chondrules, deposits which form when the environment a rock lives in changes. The scientists said these chondrules formed when water seeped through the rock in its early history on Mars.

Around these chondrules, they found evidence for


If someone came up to you and said that, what questions would you want answered before you believed them?
 
 



Is the rock really from Mars?

Yes. Absolutely.

Age dating of the rock suggests

Could the evidence seen in ALH840001 be produced by chemical processes?

Yes. Absolutely.



Why is it hard to envision the evidence in ALH840001 as biological?

Final thoughts


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