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Buried amongst a lot of unproductive chatter in this thread, is a question which I think does deserve some quality discussion about the search for exo-life. It begins with the question:
"Why does the reader think NASA has chosen specifically not to look for life on Mars with MSL/Curiosity ?"
Curiosity's primary mission is to search for past and present signs of habitability. The laboratory is equipped with spectroscopic technologies to examine chemical and isotopic composition, which can be used to characterise present or past organic chemistry ... but there are no specific experiments aboard to detect life.
Why might this be so ?
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