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(HOUSTON) -- NASA’s Curiosity rover, drilling into a rock near its landing site, has found clear evidence that Mars, eons ago, could have supported living microbes. Mission scientists said Tuesday, in the words of Mike Meyer, NASA’s chief Mars scientist, that they’ve found “all the signs of being a habitable environment at one time.”
Scientists said they had found from previous missions that the Martian surface was once warm and wet, but now they say Curiosity has given them evidence the water was much like water on Earth -- not too briny, salty or alkaline for living things.
“We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life,” said John Grotzinger, Curiosity’s project scientist, “that if you had been on Mars, the water would have been pure enough to drink.”
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
I'm not surprised at all.
...This is to coddle those with certain world views/not offend the wrong people -- to baby-step us to the inevitable conclusions we will come to via exploring space/other planets (....) Well guess what people. If there were organics, and microorganisms, they prob. evolved into much more interesting forms of life.(..)
Originally posted by eyeinoz
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SEARCH IS UR FRIEND
Originally posted by eyeinoz
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Originally posted by rickymouse
So did the inhabitants of Mars cause their own destruction like we are?
Originally posted by wildespace
Originally posted by rickymouse
So did the inhabitants of Mars cause their own destruction like we are?
No, Mars simply became uninhabitable for them (unless there are some sneaky microbes still hiding there). Mars' core cooled down and stopped spinning, which caused the magnetic field disappear. Without the magnetic field, the solar radiation stripped air molecules off, until the atmosphere became as thin as it is now. Without the thicker atmosphere, any liquid water evaporated, and Mars was left very cold and very dry.