Posthuman Blues

Spirit's 'Pot of Gold' Perplexes Researchers

"'This is a fiendishly difficult target to study,' said Steve Squyres, rover principal investigator from Cornell University, during a mission briefing Friday. 'I don't know how these things formed and it's driving me nuts, to be honest.'"

Perhaps some of these findings wouldn't be quite so "fiendish" if JPL would at least consider the possibility of organic activity on Mars.