• Question: do you think there is life on mars?

    Asked by anon-191582 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 13 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Graeme Poole

      Graeme Poole answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I don’t think there is life on Mars now. However, a billion years ago, there were lakes, rivers and seas like on Earth today, so I think life may have existed then. It would probably only have been bacteria. But today the water has gone and Mars is too dry for life, even bacteria, to survive.

    • Photo: Anne Green

      Anne Green answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      As far as we know, not today, because life needs water. However there’s a probe, called ExoMars, that’s going to go there in a few years time and drill under the surface to see if there was life on Mars in the past, when it had water.

    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      There is robotic life on Mars, We put it there.

      But on a serious answer not today, but possibly in the past.

    • Photo: Adam McGuinness

      Adam McGuinness answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Probably not now, but possibly in the past, and maybe in the future too! (me please!)

    • Photo: Agnes Wojtusiak

      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I love to imagine that there used to be! But we have no idea yet, need to keep searching! 🙂

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