7th APRIL 2001

Have you ever wondered if there is life out there apart from humanity? I mean, we seriously can't be the only ones floating around in a big ball of chemical elements can we? 


On this day in 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey, designed to orbit the planet, hunt for evidence of past or present water and volcanic activity, and to basically help answer the question "could there be, or have every been, life on Mars?"

When the Odyssey returned, people were shocked. It had found evidence that supported the idea of life possibly existing on Mars: large water ice concentrations beneath the red rust surface of the planet's Southern Hemisphere. 


The concept of life being supported on Mars is very much a possibility. 


So just imagine if there were life forms out there trying to find us? 






Image available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey