Hey, Jonathan. Hey, Michelle. Thanks for jumping on this call with me. Hey,

don't know how it's going. It's good. It's good. How are you two doing?

Doing well. Pretty good. Good. For anyone who's not familiar, Jonathan and Michelle are

out of subscures, places, editors. So they look at all of the things that everyone

sends in the good, the bad, the weird, I mean, the weird is obviously a given. And they

choose what they're going to focus on sort of researching, writing up and getting published.

We try and do, you know, as much as we can, but there's a process of selection as part

of this. And so that's Jonathan and Michelle. So I'm super excited to ask about what you've

been seeing lately, Michelle. Why don't you go?

The place that I would like to talk about is Allen Hills in Antarctica, which is a place

that like the landscape there sort of lends itself to these like fascinating scientific

discoveries, a geologist who spent decades leading a big research project in Antarctica

called it a meteorite heaven. There are many that have been found there, but probably

the crown jewel of Allen Hills is this small potato shaped rock that was found there

in 1984. It's official name is ALH 84001. And it is the oldest Martian meteorite that

we know of on Earth. Scientists think that it formed like four billion years ago, maybe

in a Martian volcano. And then it made its way to Earth about 13,000 years ago, where

it was buried under the Antarctic ice for a long time. And what makes this funny little

meteorite so interesting is that it's like sort of the center of a scientific controversy.

In 1996, a team of NASA researchers published a paper where they pointed out some of these

unusual structures inside the meteorite and have put forth an argument that they are evidence

of fossilized microbial life. And you know, it's a really cool idea. But the analysis

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