Barbara Krasnoff
There may have been life on Mars once, but don’t start looking for bug-eyed monsters just yet.
According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy, microbial life under the crust of Mars could have been wiped out in its early stages by a “global cooling event.”
Researchers based their “hypothetical scenario of an emerging Martian ecosystem” on models of Mars’ current conditions to see what might have been before climate changes ruined its chances of developing into the kind of life H.G. Wells imagined in The War of the Worlds.
Life may have thrived on early Mars, until it drove climate change
[University of Arizona News]
