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Scientist says mineral study shows life on Earth began on Mars

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NEW evidence released today supports the theory that life on Earth  began on Mars and that “we are actually all Martians”.    

Professor Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in  Florida, will today present evidence at the European Association of  Geochemistry’s annual conference that a mineral essential to the creation of  life was only available on Mars.

“The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that  life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock,” Professor Benner said in a  statement.

Professor Benner’s evidence is based on the evidence that the ingredients  needed to create life included the oxidised mineral form of the element  molybdenum.

“This form of molybdenum couldn’t have been available on Earth at the time  life first began, because three billion years ago the surface of the Earth had  very little oxygen, but Mars did,” he said.

“It’s yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely life came to  Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet.

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Meet the ancestors? New evidence  released today supports the theory that life on Earth began on Mars.

“These conditions, suitable for the origin of life, may still exist on  Mars.”

Professor Benner view is just the latest in a long-list of scientific  theories that life began on the red planet that is our nearest neighbour before  jumping over to Earth thanks to a handy bit of rock flying around space.

Professor Benner’s research tackles what he calls the two paradoxes of how  life could have started on Earth.

The first is the “tar paradox” that if you add heat or light energy to  organic matter you get tar instead of life.

But boron and molybdenum have shown the ability to control the transformation  into tar.

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Red letter day for life on Earth:  Evidence suggests a mineral essential to the creation of life was only available  on Mars and travelled to Earth.

“Analysis of a Martian meteorite recently showed that there was boron on  Mars; we now believe that the oxidised form of molybdenum was there too,”  Professor Benner said.

He said Mars, at that time, had pockets of water which addressed the other  paradox of how life began on an Earth which was totally covered by water  preventing concentrations of boron forming.

Professor Malcolm Walter, director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South  Wales, said the idea that life started on Mars was not new but the theory  suffered from a lack of proof.

“It’s not a silly idea, it’s feasible,” Professor Walter said.

“There’s just no evidence one way or another. This whole field of origin of  life studies is a very speculative field.”

“People can have these very creative ideas but it’s very difficult to prove  or disprove them.”



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