Why Doesn't NASA Just Look for Life?
Category: SCIENCE
The "water found on Mars" story is as perennial as Christmas. NASA doesn't need to tell us that again. So why not cut out the seemingly endless stream of robotic middlemen, and just send hardware that will search for life, big or small? Isn't it time to cut to the chase?
By Seth Shostak, Contributor
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, 2013-08-24