That goes for real estate as well as life's bigger questions.
Microbes are a good example.
On Saturday, NASA's Odyssey probe will begin a seven-month journey to the red planet to search for water and evidence of life, stoking the fires of the fledgling and controversial discipline of astrobiology . Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. O G Y Sponsored by Ericsson phones and accessories . Astrobiology is a spectrum of sciences focused on learning more about life both on Earth and off. Discovered in 1984, some scientists assert that ALH84001 contains the fossilized remains of microbes from Mars.