Life On Mars Research Paper

NASA researchers have confirmed the existence of potentially life supporting water that flows across the antient surface of Mars, even today! According to John Grunsfeld, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, "the existence of liquid water, even if it is super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there's life on Mars, that we have a way to describe how it might survive." Using images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA researchers confirmed that the water streaks found absorb light at specific wavelengths that directly connects them with chemical that water on Mars would need. These chemicals allow the water to stay in a liquid form at low temperatures but it also makes sure that the water doesn't boil on the hot surface of mars. With the water confirmed to be existent, researchers hope to find life, specifically microbes, in the crust of Mars. However, how habitable Mars may actually be depends on how cold the weather is as well as how salty the water really is. And, …show more content…
Having water Mars has an important impact on Earth because if life has originated twice within our solar system, our existence couldn’t have been random and it could also imply that the wider cosmos must also buzz with life. Also, if scientists can prove life on Mars, it definitely sparks interest in the thought or envisionment that one day we, as humans, could inhabit the Red Planet as well. But, colonizing Mars is still a bit far fetched. To establish life on a foreign planet that planet one must have more than just drinkable, safe water; they must have a habitable