Life in Martian Caves

WASHINGTON — A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials
at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence
that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained
by pockets of water.

he scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center
in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings
to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently
is being peer reviewed.

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the
private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures
and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to
those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.

from Space.com