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Please note the date on this press release, to which the Stanford rep apparently referenced:

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/96...ossil.html

Thanks.

That was interesting. Unfortunately, it appears this was later decided not to be good evidence for life on Mars. Here is a short article that touches on the topic:
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudent..._1015.html

In July, 1996, it was announced that Dr. David McKay, along with a team of scientists at Johnson Space Center (a division of NASA), had discovered possible fossils of bacteria in a meteorite named ALH84001 that came from Mars. ... While many scientists were excited at first, much of the proof offered fell apart. NASA said that after two years of study "a number of lines of evidence have gone away".

But, once you noted this I remember some hubbub at the time. Zare was on my original thesis committee. I defended around this time, and he had to beg off due to scheduling difficulties. Possibly related to this experiment, but my memory is a little fuzzy. 

[CTcard]

Please note the date on this press release, to which the Stanford rep apparently referenced:

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/96...ossil.html

Thanks.

That was interesting. Unfortunately, it appears this was later decided not to be good evidence for life on Mars. Here is a short article that touches on the topic:
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudent..._1015.html

In July, 1996, it was announced that Dr. David McKay, along with a team of scientists at Johnson Space Center (a division of NASA), had discovered possible fossils of bacteria in a meteorite named ALH84001 that came from Mars. ... While many scientists were excited at first, much of the proof offered fell apart. NASA said that after two years of study "a number of lines of evidence have gone away".

But, once you noted this I remember some hubbub at the time. Zare was on my original thesis committee. I defended around this time, and he had to beg off due to scheduling difficulties. Possibly related to this experiment, but my memory is a little fuzzy.