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Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes

Posted by timothy on from the little-chilly-though dept.

skade88 writes "Does life exist on Mars? We might assume if there ever was life on Mars then it most likely came about when Mars was a wetter and warmer place than it is now. So the question is, if life did exist on Mars in the past, does it still exist? Ars takes a look at how microbes have survived on Earth in environmental conditions much like we currently see on Mars."

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  1. Re:No, the question is: what happened by Thiez · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, we're going to burn instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Earth.27s_fate