Brief history of astrobiology

In 1996, Dave McKay and others announced that they had found evidence for fossil remnants of life in a meteorite from Mars.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/meteorites/mars_meteorite.html

We will talk about this evidence later this semester, and whether or not it is believed and believable.

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