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Originally Posted by CraigS
Take a look at this brief Youtube on the selected landing site, Gale Crater, for the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity rover.
Man, if ever there's going to be life found on Mars, its at this site !
.. Les Hiddens, Bear Grylls and Ray Mears would all scratch around this area looking for food and water if they were plonked on Mars !
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I can just see it now, Les sitting casually by a campfire talking about the medicinal value of martian swap grass, Bear would be chasing down a martian antelope mouse for dinner and Mears would just be looking like his usual boy-like dumb self and fashioning a bow and arrow out of a piece of old martian driftwood
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Originally Posted by CraigS
Once again .. if they don't find it all in this place, then the rational conclusion surely must be "no life on Mars" and; "no life can be found in high probability 'Goldilock Zones"!?!
Cheers
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Not necessarily and actually a rather hasty conclusion based on very little evidence from one particular spot. It would be akin to landing in the middle of the Atacama Desert and then saying this planet has no life on it. The only way they're going to resolve this question once and for all is to go there and explore the place. A probe is only as good as what it's capable of doing physically and what it's been programed to do. The bugs might be hiding a metre or more under its deepest probes and it won't know they're there. They might even have neon signs flashing "Hi, we're here!!!" and it can't see much past the end of it's metaphorical nose, so to speak.