How to Search for Life on Mars (noticia en inglés)
24-07-2014 EL CAB EN LOS MEDIOS (Scientific American)
Experiments now under development could finally answer one of the most profound questions in science: Does life exist outside of Earth?
Astronomers have learned a great many things about Mars since the first probes landed there nearly four decades ago.
We know that liquid water once flowed across its surface and
that Mars and Earth were similar in their early history. When life on
Earth arose, some 3.5 billion years ago, Mars was warmer than it is
today and had liquid oceans, an active magnetic field and a thicker
atmosphere. Given the similarity between the two planets, it seems
reasonable to think that whatever steps led to life on Earth could also
have occurred on Mars.
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