• Question: do you think there was a life on mars or is it fake

    Asked by haft532coax2 on 10 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Emily Walls

      Emily Walls answered on 10 Oct 2025:

      I don’t think there is life on Mars, if were talking about ‘human’ style life, the conditions are not there for even our basic cells to survive. When we look for life on other planets (exoplanets) we look for very basic building blocks of life that we have evolved from an example being amino acids – we use telescopes to try and dissect the planets atompheres to see if we can find any traces of these cells. So I think not on Mars!

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      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 10 Oct 2025:

      Now- not probably not, but in the past when Mars had an atmosphere and water, then maybe! it will be awesome to find out

    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 13 Oct 2025:

      The physics and chemistry and gave us biology here on Earth are governed by rules that are the same everywhere in space. So it is possible that given similar initial conditions elsewhere in space that life might evolve. One place nearby we are looking is the icy moon, Europa, as it is thought that life might exist in the ocean under the ice. In terms of Mars, life evolved pretty quickly on Earth and might have done so on Mars given it had liquid water. But it was soon killed off as the planet cooled and the atmosphere disappeared leaving a ball of rusty rock.

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      Niamh Topping answered on 14 Oct 2025:

      I don’t think there’s any life on Mars these days, but I think a long time in the past there was likely microbial life forms on Mars or something similar. Definitely not green aliens walking around though!

    • Photo: Luke Fountain

      Luke Fountain answered on 4 Nov 2025:

      In September, NASA published a paper on the best evidence we have to date for past life on Mars. In a sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Jezero Crater (an old, dry riverbed on Mars), they found a potential biosignature that may have been produced by ancient microbial life. It’s not a guarantee that it was formed by microbial life, but it is the most likely explanation in this particular case. Other scientists around the world now have access to the data and are working to either confirm whether this is the case or refute it.

      So, was there life on Mars? We can’t be absolutely certain, but we continue to build a body of evidence that suggests there could once have been, even if it is only microbial life.

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