Life on Mars?

@akalinus (43448)
United States
February 22, 2021 12:58pm CST
I have been watching the Perseverance camera photos from Mars. It looks desolate with mountains and boulders. I eagerly look for any signs of life or activity of life, perhaps abandoned structures or whatever. It does not look like life is there but I think there is water up there. It is hard to tell. Do the mountains hide some kind of civilization? What do you think? Could there be intelligent life on Mars? Would you want to travel there if you had the opportunity? Are we alone in the universe?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (138020)
• United States
22 Feb 21
One of the machines there found water ice under ground and in pockets in craters. We know there used to be water all over Mars. Scientists have identified lake beds, ocean beds and river beds there. One of the things the machines are trying to find now is evidence of microscopic life forms in the rocks in the lake beds. (Of course, if there is evidence of life, it will almost surely be petrified life since the planet has been without most of it's atmosphere/water for millions of years.) Yes, we'll find life... maybe not on Mars, but somewhere out in space.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
22 Feb 21
I think there must be life somewhere. There are millions of planets. I thought I saw rivers on the live cam. It sure looked like it.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (138020)
• United States
22 Feb 21
@akalinus Those are dry river beds.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
2 Mar 21
Why did Mars lose its atmosphere? Could that happen on Earth too?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472258)
• Switzerland
23 Feb 21
No, there is not intelligent life on Mars. May be there is life on another galaxy in the universe, but not on Mars. We are surely not alone in the universe.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472258)
• Switzerland
23 Feb 21
@akalinus Do you know which is the temperature on Mars? The "average" temperature is -80 F( (-62 C)... what do you think to grow on a planet that is so cold?
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@LadyDuck I did not know that. Why would it be that cold when the earth, its nearest planet, is much more temperate?
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
23 Feb 21
If there is life out there, I hope it is friendly. Mars does not have a good atmosphere but I wonder if growing things could create one.
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Little Giant
@ricotivi (375)
• Philippines
22 Feb 21
For me I think its a liveable planet, maybe we just don't know that yet, if you've watched old photo's and videos from the internet most are distorted or blurry or black and white, now we have a clear videos from NASA, maybe later on they will see something in Mars that would answer question of a possibility of a second planet
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Little Giant
@ricotivi (375)
• Philippines
23 Feb 21
@akalinus those were theories, teraforming is one way, but seems to me they haven't really explored Mars, that's why their sending more probes to test the living condition, if they found out more the possibility of a liveable planet, maybe and surely it will be colonized, good for a fresh start for some people
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@ricotivi I think in the future that some country will send people to start a colony on Mars. That does not seem likely right now, but maybe someday.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I have heard that the citizens of Mars could be in underground cities with a controlled atmosphere. Or, maybe I watched too many science fiction movies in the past.
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Jessica
@JESSY3236 (20078)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I don't there is intelligent life on Mars, but life as in small water animals maybe.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (43448)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I understand that there used to be water on Mars. Where there is water, there is usually life. I saw a youtube video about a boy who said he came from Mars in his last lifetime and they destroyed the planet with a nuclear war. He said he was sent to warn the people of earth.
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