Penelope Boston says there might be life on Mars

http://www.ted.com/talks/penelope_boston.html

Penelope Boston talked about the potability of life on Mars and how they are currently exploring areas on Earth to aid in finding life on Mars. Through the exploration of caves and examining life in extreme conditions they can get a better idea of what and how to look for life on other planets.

I previously had no idea how scientist would look for life on other planets. I just sort of assumed that we would be just have something with a camera and try to video tape proof. It never occurred to me that the life they could be looking for could be bacteria and we could research on Earth how to find life on other planets.

Link Name: Penelope Boston at New Mexico Tech.

http://www.ees.nmt.edu/boston/

This is a really simple home page. It has a list of Penelope Bostons degrees, Research she his currently doing, classes she's teaching, a list of selected publications, and New Mexico Tech different press releases that are relative to her.

Link Name: National Cave and Karst Research Institute

http://www.nature.nps.gov/nckri/

The research that Penelope Boston is doing is in the caves on this page along with other cave research. On the page is free Annual Reports that illustrate and show what the different researchers are doing and have found in each cave.

Link Name: Earthly Cave Bacteria Hint at Mars Life

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/08/cave-bacteria-mars.html

This is a short article on the Discovery Channels news section. It talks about the primitive bacteria that Penelope Boston talked about and how it hints at life on earth.