NASA SCIENTISTS HAVE THEY MADE ALIEN DNA?
When NASA formed in 1958, it sought to expand human knowledge of space. The US agency looked to further science and technology, develop and improve aeronautical and space vehicles and send humans on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. It also sparked interest in the potential of life on other planets. Today detecting alien life is an important part of NASA's planetary science missions, and its chief Jim Bridenstine says it’s a high priority. Next year NASA is once again targeting the Red Planet, sending the Mars 2020 rover skywards so that it will touch down and collect samples for eventual return to Earth.
Meanwhile, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sending its own rover to drill below the surface of Mars in the hope of finding life buried underground. And the fact that it will bear the name Rosalind Franklin is proving to be rather apt.
It was this British chemist and X-ray crystallographer who helped discover the structure of DNA – the building blocks of life – assisting in laying down the principles to which scientists have worked to ever since. There is a fundamental understanding of what DNA is and how it presents itself here on Earth. Only it would now seem that unimagined forms of life may
