SpaceRef - Astronomy - Planets - Mars

SpaceRef - Astronomy - Planets - Mars - Life

Fossil Life in ALH 84001? - An explanation of the Science paper of Dr. David McKay and his co-workers, where they give evidence that Martian bacteria may have lived in the Martian meteorite ALH 84001, USRA Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Is there life on Mars? - A history of the search for life on Mars with a focus on the Viking life detection experiments - Malin Space Science Systems.

Life on Mars - Online version of an article that appeared in Popular Science Magazine in 1997 regarding the discovery of possible microfossils in the ALH84001 Martian meteorite.

Life on Mars - A collection of links regarding the search for life on Mars - Federation of American Scientists.

Life on Mars! The Viking Labeled Release Experiment - published papers from the Viking Labeled Release Life Detection Experiment and other materials by Principal Investigator Gilbert Levin.

Life on Mars? - This website features information surrounding the August 1996 announcement that microfossils may have been found within the ALH84001 Martian meteorite - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Life on Mars? - Online version of an article that appeared in US News and World Report in 1997 regarding the discovery of possible microfossils in the ALH84001 Martian meteorite.

Looking For Life in All The Right Places: Is there life on Mars? - An interview from 1994 with NASA astrobiologist Michael Meyers about the prospect of finding extant and extinct life on Mars.

Looking Inside Earth for Life on Mars - An article by Steve Nadis which provides a subterranean tour through Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico where NASA astrobiologists look for life forms which might provide clues to the types of life which might still live deep inside Mars, November/December 1997 issue of Technology Review

Search for life on Mars will start in Siberia - NASA Press release regarding Earth-based research in cold environments for organisms which may exist in environments similar to those currently found on Mars NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Search for Past Life on Mars: Possible Relic Biogenic Activity in Martian Meteorite ALH84001 - This is THE Science magazine research paper from August 1996 announcing the identification of possible microfossils in a meteorite from Mars - NASA Johnson Space Center.

The Search for Evidence of Life on Mars - The report of the Mars Expeditions Strategy Group, 26 September, 1996, NASA Office of Space Science.