are you people serious?? first off, to the person that claims that it is a cover up due to race, WTF?? you obviously have issues if you think that discovery of a new life form would be covered up because of race, are you serious?? now, i do not claim to be able to state that without a doubt life does not exist on Mars, but at the same time this sort of thing should be taken with some amount of skepticism because the odds of intelligent life on mars is very small (notice i said intelligent life) and not just believed to be fact because of a picture, especially in today's age. are we really that naive....how many of you could i convince that the earth is flat, or that the earth is the center of the universe?? WOW!