NASA TO PROVE LIFE EXISTS ON MARS IN FIVE YEARS !

With the scientists at NASA finding fresh evidence of Methane on MARS, speculation is getting hot on the existence of life on the planet. After confirming the presence of water on Mars in early 2008, this news has set the debate on fire.

British bookmakers William Hill reacted to the news by shortening the odds of life on Mars announcement by NASA in next five years.

Professor of Geological Science at Indiana University Lisa Pratt said of the new information, "Methane can be a waste product from microbes that are methane-generating, but methane can also be a food for microbes that are methane consumers, so, in either way, this is exciting because we have evidence that we need to think about in terms of the possibilities of life on Mars.

According to the Professor of Atmospheric and Space Science at University of Michigan Sushil Atreya, "There are two possibilities again. Either it is geology, in which case it's the reaction between water and rock that's producing the methane, or it's biology, in which case the microbes are producing the methane."

Bookmakers William Hill have taken the latest news very seriously and positively and have now made it odds on that NASA would prove the existence of life on Mars in next five years.

They now quote 4/6 that NASA will confirm the current existence of any kind of life native to the Planet Mars on or before January 1 2014. They also offer 11/10 that this will not happen.

"With all the current speculation about the evidence offered by the detection of methane gas emissions, we have taken a series of bets that the current existence of life on Mars will be confirmed by NASA within five years - previously we have offered odds of up to 100/1 about this happening," said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.