Phoenix Mars Lander

Zombies?! Good thing I have a laser to fend them off with!!!

Checking that CO2/H20 ice thickness would have been very important. A ggod test for many planetary Sol system bodies weather. A cryo-weather station. Perhaps we can add one to you someday.

Wow, it's already been a year? Time flies...

The big problem is that the Phoenix Lander discovered no organic carbon whatsoever. No tests conducted by the Viking Landers, Sojourner, the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers or the Mars Phoenix Lander have detected any evidence that there is or ever was life of any kind on the Red Planet though seas once covered portions of Mars billions of years ago... Read More. Though future landers (such as the Mars Science Lab) will run more sophisticated tests, don’t hold your breath. I predict that Mars and every other body in this sun system is abiotic other than Earth. Still, I argue that the Milky Way Galaxy is teeming with life and with intelligent life.

As we all know, if evidence of past life IS found on Mars, the creationists & skeptical scientists will keep the question about the findings open for decades. Well beyond my lifetime I'd wager.

The Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2011. MSL is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment capable of supporting microbes. Though I predict that NASA will find no evidence of past or present life on Mars, or Titan, or on any body in this sun system other than our planet, I maintain that our galaxy is teeming with life and with intelligent life.