https://www.space.com/can-alien-life-exist-planet-rings
One locale that few scientists have considered for life is the set of rings that crown Jupiter, outside the gas giant's atmosphere. These rings, like those that circle all of our solar system's gas giants, are actually belts composed mainly of water-ice particles, some as small as grains of sand, others as large as mountains. Might life exist there?
https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Next #SETILive: Earth as an Exoplanet
TODAY, 3 April, 8:30 am PDT
With only one known example of a world with life - Earth - scientists recently examined whether a mission could determine if a planet was habitable. Björn Konrad joins senior planetary astronomer Franck Marchis for an engaging SETI Live on how they used remote sensing data to draw their conclusions and what the results mean for the search for life beyond Earth.