I still have trouble with this martian meteor with life on it theory. It’s just hard for me to see how a meteor leaves a planet. I guess that it’s possible (maybe spit out of a volcano or hit by an inbound asteroid), but still tough to believe. And then we find it, and identify it as a chip off of Mars with fossil evidence. Hmmm? If people would say that to get funding, just think of how much work they’d get if they started making stuff up about climate change.
Bob, the impact of an asteroid into the martian surface would have been substantial, ejecting material off the martian surface into space.
See the moon? It is believed by most scientist and astronomers today that a comet or large asteroid had a cataclysmic impact with earth, and that material eventually formed our moon.
Oddly enough, there is little doubt some of that material eventually made it's way to the martian surface.
What happens is it creates a TREMENDOUS shock wave that travels down into the planet at the point of impact, then reverses itself to travel back out in the direction the impactor came. As a result, the planet basically pukes, sending much of the asteroid and the planet itself straight up and out. If the impact is extreme enough, the ejecta can actually achieve escape velocity, and it pointed in the right direction, arrive on earth, perhaps millions of years later.
...and how is it they know this came from Mars 13,000 years ago? Probably just more “religious science.”
Yep, it looks a fossil off of Venus to me!
A rock blasting of into space from a meteor strike is extremely easy- forget that one- the math is so simple
Harder is identifying a rock here on earth as coming from Mars- but STILL very very easy - by comparison
Finding a microbe and identifying it as ancient life- that is the hardest of all- I would like to see more than this, but it does look promising