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Originally Posted by CraigS
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I can't believe that they're not sending up a microscope capable of looking for micro-organisms or their fossil remnants ! (See text in bold above).
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With most of them, you need an electron microscope of one sort or another to do this and they're a little too large and power hungry to be sticking on a probe...even one as large as Curiosity
You can't rely on the assumption that the Martian microbes exhibited the characteristics of some of their Earthly counterparts and produced macroscopic structures...like microbe mats and stromatolite like structures. Any confirmation of this will come through the exploration of the rocks of the planet as a whole, not from one locality only.
It only goes to prove my case in point.