Photo: Undersea Chesapeake Crater Offers Hints to Mars Life



A deep-drilling site in Northampton County, Virginia, explores the Chesapeake Bay impact structure in September 2005.

A study of the site released in June 2008 has found an unexpected abundance of life in some areas of the crater, offering a hint of possible locations to search for life on highly-cratered Mars.

Image courtesy of David S. Powars (U.S. Geological Survey)/ Science


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