/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2324/all en /newsroom/channels/news/blueprint-life-forms-mars-339976 <p>The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada’s High Arctic is the one that most closely resembles certain areas on Mars. So, if you want to learn more about the kinds of life forms that could once have existed – or may still exist – on Mars, this is a good place to look. After much searching under extremely difficult conditions, ƻ����Ժ researchers have found microbes that have never been identified before.</p> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:11:48 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288211 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-mars-2020s-perseverance-landing-jezero-crater-328690 <p>NASA’s science rover <em>Perseverance</em>, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday, February 18 and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. (<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/space-how-to-watch-nasa-mars-rover-perseverance-landing" target="_blank">National Post</a>)<br /> <br /> Here are some experts from ƻ����Ժ that can provide comment on this issue:<br /> <br /></p> Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:52:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256628 at /newsroom /newsroom/richard-leveille Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 24322 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-radar-evidence-liquid-water-mars-288186 <p>"A Mars orbiter has detected a wide lake of liquid water hidden below the planet’s southern ice sheets. There have been much-debated hints of tiny, ephemeral amounts of water on Mars before. But if confirmed, this lake marks the first discovery of a long-lasting cache of the liquid." (<a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-may-have-lake-liquid-water-search-life">Science News</a>)</p> Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:04:02 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 62696 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ctv-search-life-mars-begins-mcgills-macdonald-campus-285383 <p>“There are some indications that Mars, many billions of years ago, was much warmer – and much wetter,” explained Lyle White, a ƻ����Ժ professor. “Where it would have been an environment that we can envision it would have hosted life as we know on Earth.”<br /> <a href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/the-search-for-life-on-mars-begins-at-mcgill-s-macdonald-campus-1.3818546">CTV News</a></p> Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:58:36 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 33011 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-technique-finding-life-mars-284005 <p>Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02594/full?utm_source=G-BLO&utm_medium=WEXT&utm_campaign=ECO_FMICB_20180119_mars">Frontiers in Microbiology</a>, used miniaturized scientific instruments and  new microbiology techniques to identify and examine microorganisms in the Canadian high Arctic — one of the closest analogs to Mars on Earth.</p> Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:16:00 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 32856 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257865 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, </strong><strong><a href="/newsroom/">ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</em></p> Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:11:06 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25096 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/water-mars-nasa-announcement-255675 <p> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:22:40 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 24495 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mars-too-has-macroweather-240080 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:53:34 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 21508 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/bacterium-canadian-high-arctic-and-life-mars-226842 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:40 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 18678 at /newsroom