Getting closer to Life on Mars?

NASA's Mars explorer, Curiosity, was able to analyze some rock samples and the results indicate that Mars could have supported life living microbes in the past.  Using it's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments it was able to identify sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon which are some of the key chemical ingredients for life,  The sample was drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater. 

Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet's "habitability."  It landed on mars Aug. 5 2012.  The rover's battery should give it an operating lifespan of about 1 Mars year which is about 687 Earth days.
So what  do you think this discovery means?  Leave some comments tell me what you think.

Hubble telescope finds space invader

It appears one of the alien invaders from the classic arcade game Space Invaders is out roaming the galaxy and the Hubble telescope got him on camera.  The galaxy is a spiral galaxy.  The image was taken in infrared light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.  Due to an effect called gravitational lensing light is bent and distorted by gravity.  The gravitational field surrounding galaxy cluster Abell 68, which is a massive collection of galaxies about 3 billion light years away, is what is causing the distortion.  You can see a second, less distorted image of the same galaxy to the left of the alien invader.  Here's a link to the full-resolution image of the cluster.