Life Is Possible In “Large Regions” Of Mars
It’s official – Earth and Mars are similar enough for terrestrial life to be sustained on the red planet. Australian scientists have confirmed that organisms from our planet can survive on a substantial percentage of Mars. This study is said to be the best estimate yet of how habitable Mars is for Earth-dwelling microbes.
While water cannot exist in anything but gas form on the surface of Mars because of its low-pressure environment, the good news is that underground it can be liquid, due to the weight of the soil on the planet’s surface. That means that terrestrial life-forms could live under the surface of our neighbouring planet.
The warmth from the planet’s core at certain depths could also allow organisms from Earth to thrive at the correct temperature on Mars.
That’s pretty exciting for little bacteria and such, but whether human life could be sustained on Mars is not necessarily even part of the equation yet. For those interested in the origin of life on different planets, however, this discovery is groundbreaking news.
[Source: TimesLive]
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