Alien Anomalies

Douglas L. Smith ( 2007) – The Fall and Rise ( and Fall ? ) of Life on Mars.

 Page 8: "........Oyama, previously one of the strongest proponents

of life on Mars, was convinced by the

GCMS results that the planet was sterile, as was

Horowitz and most of the scientific community.

Levin, however, didn’t buy the peroxide explanation,

saying that his instrument had detected life

in exactly the way it was designed to do—a view

he maintains to this day. He is no longer alone.

The discovery of possible bacterial fossils in a rock

ejected from Mars that landed in Antarctica; photographs

by JPL’s Mars Global Surveyor of what

appear to be fresh, water-carved gullies in the walls

of craters; and indications from JPL’s Mars Odyssey

that permafrost lies within one meter of large

parts of the planet’s surface have again reopened

the question. And Arthur Lafleur, a member of

the original GCMS team, now says that millions

of microorganisms would be needed for their

aggregate organic material to register on the Viking

instrument, whereas the labeled-release experiment

was capable of detecting far fewer cells—as few as

Mars