Do aliens mean Microbes or ‘little green men’?
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: High-ranking NASA scientists have revealed humanity may be on the verge of discovering alien life.
At a public panel in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for NASA, stated he believes the breakthrough will be made within two decades at the longest.
“I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,” she stated.
During an hour-long presentation, top NASA officials related a slew of recent discoveries that suggest we are closer to finding extraterrestrial life than ever before.
For instance, Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, cited a study that analyzed the atmosphere above Mars’ polar ice caps and suggests that 50 percent of the planet’s northern hemisphere once had oceans up to a mile deep, and that it had that water for up to 1.2 billion years.
Green also touted another recent study that utilized measurements of aurora on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede to determine it has an expansive liquid ocean beneath its icy exterior.
“We now recognize that habitable zones are not just around stars, they can be around giant planets too,” Green said. “We are finding out the solar system is really a soggy place.”
It remains, however, to be seen if alien life would mean discovering microbes or as made popular by science fiction ‘little green men’ with supernatural powers and advanced weaponry to boot.
Just a day before NASA’s panel, UFO hunter Marcelo Irazusta noticed an unidentified disc on the surface of Mars while scanning the Google Mars app. The object is apparently gargantuan, spanning 3.52 miles across.
The disc is the second such anomaly spotted on Mars in less than a week. On March 29 the Inquisitr reported UFO researcher Scott Waring found “two gold faces” in the Martian terrain.