It’s Possible That Mars Is The First Planet In Our Solar System To Support Life

Mars is covered in countless layers of dust, much like an ancient home that hasn’t seen much activity in a very long time. But it would sound absurd to imagine life thriving on the lone and misty Red Planet, unlike an empty mansion.

But scientists have long believed that our neighboring planet, which has enormous craters that may have once been lakes and volcanoes that haven’t erupted in 50,000 years, once supported life, even if it was only microbial.

Now, a team from the University of Copenhagen has discovered that Mars was probably the first planet in our solar system to support life and that it originally had an ocean covering it!

Water and asteroids that transport amino acids are the sources of life.

There are hypotheses as to how large cold asteroids introduced life to Earth, and it’s possible that this also happened with Mars.

According to the study, Mars was blasted with asteroids coated in ice and possibly even organic chemicals necessary for life about 100 million years after it formed 4.5 billion years ago, or about 100 million years after Earth.

The analysis also supports the conclusions of a prior study by indicating that there was enough water to cover the entire planet.

The researchers studied meteorite fragments of the Martian crust that had been discovered on Earth as a result of an asteroid or comet striking Mars so violently that boulders and other space junk that had been hurled billions of years earlier eventually fell to Earth. They were able to draw the conclusion that the Red Planet was once wet thanks to this.

Mars is much smaller than Earth and lacks the same interior tectonic plates that are constantly shifting and recycling, erasing any traces of what transpired over the first 500 million years of our planet’s history.

But because of the Red Planet’s constant exposure to cosmic radiation, its surface is essentially sterile. So, according to Bizzarro, any current life on Mars should be between one and two meters underground.

This new study confirms earlier findings suggesting that Mars formerly had seas and may have been an ideal place for life to begin, possibly even before Earth!

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