... is evidences to support the idea life does exist on Mars. First, photographs of mar's atmosphere showed extensive and intensive volcanic eruptions. Further more it show that liquid water may exist deep beneath these volcanoes. Recent discovering had found terrestrial organisms living deep within the Columbia River basalt. Researcher has discovered that bacteria can survive in harsh environment. Therefore, the likely place ... springs, site of recent volcanism, and underground hydrothermal . Thus this increases the possibility that living organisms might exist in more buried conditions. ...

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... PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and small germ-like bodies that could be fossilized microbes, says David McKay, of NASA. The carbonites especially hint that water once was present. It was McKay's team that was responsible for uncovering the life-like evidence from the meteorite and stunned the world of science with ... fundamentally hostile to life because of the peroxides, and intense ultra-violet radiation from the sun, life beneath the soil may still be possible. The meteorite found in Antarctica seems to have come from deep beneath Mars' surface. At the same time that these e...

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... into a new century, Mars might become the next planet Earth. The variability of the Mars atmosphere in terms of temperatures, dust content, clouds, water vapor, and even total atmospheric pressure, is at the extreme. "On gaseous planets lightning has been detected by the Pioneer and Voyager spacecrafts", which ... to have fallen as low as 20 billion. If a mission is deployed, it would last two and a half years. The air and water will be recycled and the astronauts will utilize liquid oxygen and methane made on the surface to fuel their vehicle. The astronauts, while on the ... The key ...

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... . There is no evidence of volcanic activity on the planet Mars. There lots of erosion and small floods that happen on Mars. There is other possibilities of other fluids besides water on planet Mars . The age of erosion channels is estimated to be about nearly 4 billion years. Doing to Mar's plate tectonics it is not able to recycle any of this ... earth would be at that distance of the sun. It has a thin atmosphere composed of tiny amount of Carbon dioxide 95.3% plus nitrogen 2.7%, argon 1.6 %, and traces of oxygen .15 % and water .03 %. The average surface pressure on the surface of Mar...

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... the sun, great dust storms appear as yellow clouds. The largest of these storms can cover the globe of Mars and last for months. At other times white clouds of water vapor are visible. Scientists now believe that the canals people observed on Mars during the 19th century are actually another optical illusion, caused by the tendency to draw connections between ... the structure of the gravity field. From that data scientists can learn some things about density in different parts of the planet. Mars is thought to have a relatively thick crust. Beneath the Tharsis bulge, an area of volcani...

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