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* '''''Contributing an article in March 2017 that contradicts statements in Life on Mars that the Mars surface is known to be sterile [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FModern_Mars_habitability&diff=prev&oldid=855472459], and defending it from deletion.'''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=prev&oldid=855483230] For another perspective on why I defended it from deletion, please watch this short (less than two minutes) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-Ycp5llEI official NASA video] about planetary protection for Mars organisms. It's the third video on the main overview page for the NASA Office of Planetary Protection[https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/overview]. I fully acknowledge here that Wikipedia says that the Mars surface is known to be sterile[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Cumulative_effects], that my article was deleted because it contradicted this statement, and that these views of NASA on the possibility of present day Mars organisms for some reason are not thought to be appropriate for Wikipedia. However, please don't make it an additional unblock requirement that I have to say that NASA's views are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CHEESE WP:CHEESE], thanks!
{{cot|Details}}This is further supporting evidence that I was expressing NASA's views to the best of my ability, not my own:
{{cot|Details}}NASA's planetary protection officer is also the author of the quote in that diff about Mars being a giant dinner plate for Earth organisms<ref name=Conley>{{cite news|last1=Chang|first1=Kenneth|title=Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/science/mars-catharine-conley-nasa-planetary-protection-officer.html|agency=New York Times|date=October 5, 2015}} ▼
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{{quote|"The salts known as perchlorates that lower the freezing temperature of water at the R.S.L.s, keeping it liquid, can be consumed by some Earth microbes. “The environment on Mars potentially is basically one giant dinner plate for Earth organisms,” Dr. Conley said."}} </ref>, not me. The title of the deleted article came from an astrobiology conference sub session<ref name=modernmarshabitability>[https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2017/program-abstracts/topics/index.shtml#solarSystem Session Topics] - ArbSciCon 2017:
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