Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / July 2010

NASA’s Martian bacteria were no bacteria
For over 14 years, NASA’s scientists at Johnson Space Center maintain
they  found Martian bacteria inside Meteorite ALH 84001. However, the
following micrographs show the “bacteria” were actually pieces of

NASA’s TEM shows myofilaments in Martian meteorite ALH84001
Figure 1 is originally from an article (note 1) concerning Martian
meteorite ALH84001, authored by NASA scientists at Johnson Space
Center. The figure seems to show fossilized traces of myofilaments