Water Life On Mars at Life

Water Life On Mars. These images certainly makes you think. The traces of ancient valleys and river channels suggest liquid water once flowed across the surface of mars.

Although no bodies of liquid water exist on mars today, evidence has accumulated that rivers flowed on the red planet long ago. The surface of mars is a rotten place for life, being exposed to ultraviolet radiation that will kill anything pretty quickly. So it all depends on where the water that life requires comes from.

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Mars is a freezing desert today, but billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface. While water is known to exist on mars, most is found in the planet’s cold polar regions as ice. Even if life no longer lives on mars, or never existed in the first place, water could still prove vital to future life on mars in the form of human colonies on the red planet. Stephen clifford, for many years a staff scientist at the lunar and planetary institute, even wrote in 1987 that there could be liquid water at the base of the martian poles due to the kind of high pressure environments he had studied in greenland and antarctica.