{"id":2,"date":"2008-06-30T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2008\/06\/earth-the-new-mars.html"},"modified":"2008-06-30T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T06:59:00","slug":"earth-the-new-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2008\/06\/earth-the-new-mars.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth: The new Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New evidence supports the theory that Mars may have been the home to life forms at one time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NASA researchers want to determine whether the planet could support, or ever has supported, life. The nutrients are among a few positive indicators they have gleaned since the Phoenix Mars Lander began collecting and testing soil samples last month. Early findings, including ice crystals and nutrients, point toward water &#8212; the chemical basis for life. <\/p>\n<p>Phoenix co-investigator William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead TEGA scientist, called the data &#8220;spectacular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, we can say that the soil has clearly interacted with water in the past,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know whether that interaction occurred in this particular area in the northern polar region, or whether it might have happened elsewhere and blown up to this area as dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/hardware\/supercomputers\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208801495\">read more here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2002\/12mar_waterplanet.htm?list72572\">scientists have speculated <\/a>that Mars was formerly a wet planet.  Some UFO-logists and conspiracy theorists have hypothesized that life on earth was seeded from Mars when the planet ran out of water and its inhabitants relocated to a lusher, greener planet.   We now have evidence that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/NATURE\/9909\/17\/leaky.seas.enn\/\"> leaky seas could <\/a>render the Earth as dry as Mars (this will be in a billion years so there&#8217;s no need to panic just yet!). <\/p>\n<p>What pleases me is the ever-growing pool of evidence that what seemed far-fetched ten years ago (life on Mars) is no longer so far-fetched.  As we shift into the Aquarian Age our minds will have to expand to accommodate new paradigms of information and reality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New evidence supports the theory that Mars may have been the home to life forms at one time: NASA researchers want to determine whether the planet could support, or ever has supported, life. 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