Tantalizing evidence is accumulating that suggests the red planet is alive, but incontrovertible proof is still lacking. And while the European Space Agency is keen to send a lander to find it, a history of failed life-finding missions at NASA makes Americans more cautious.
“The life on Mars issue has recently undergone a paradigm shift,” said Ian Wright, an astrobiologist at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University in Britain, “to the extent now that one can talk about the possibility of present life on Mars without risking scientific suicide.” Wired
(I filed this under “foreign policy.” Get it?)
