This picture resembles bacteria that we have here on Earth called Titanospirillium velox. However, this image reveals bacteria that was taken from a meteorite! In the March edition of Journal of Cosmology, a new study was published by NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover that revealed fossil evidence of microorganisms found in meteorites. This study focuses on a rare class of meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites which are meteorites that contain chemical components believed to have come from the origin of the solar system. In other words, these meteorites are believed to be the most primitive.
Dr. Hoover's discovery of fossil evidence of microorganisms that are commonly found here on Earth suggest life must be found in other places than the Earth in our Universe. Other microorganisms he stated were, "strange" and unidentifiable. When presented to other expert scientists, no one has been able to identify some of these microscopic organisms.
Dr. Marais of the Ames Research Center is quite cautious, as well as other scientists, noting these kinds of claims have been made before. Over 5,000 scientists have been invited by this Journal to review, scrutinize, evaluate and research these new findings (which has never been done on this large of a scale before).
If you were a scientist invited to investigate this claim, what would be your next step? Is this a new discovery of life outside our planet? How might you go about verifying if this claim is really true or accurate?
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