posted on Feb, 17 2005 @ 03:11 PM
From;
www.time.com...
“What Mariner Really Saw”, TIME Magazine
Sep. 19, 1969
Man's age-old dream of extraterrestrial life was stimulated earlier this summer by preliminary interpretations of data sent back from Mars by the
twin Mariner probes. Hurriedly examining the readings from his infrared spectrometer on board Mariner 7, Chemist George C. Pimental had dramatically
announced that the Martian atmosphere probably contained traces of ammonia and methane, two gases produced on earth by bacterial decay. The
implication was clear: there might well be micro-organisms on Mars.Last week, after further study of the Mariner data, Pimental reported that his
ephemeral clue to the...”