• janNatan
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    1 year ago

    Worth noting the article argues we killed life on Mars inside of a sample taken, NOT all life on Mars.

  • Agamemnon@lemmy.worldM
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    I do agree with the conclusion. - A new mission dedicated to answering the question of life on Mars is warranted. Earthbound discoveries of extremophile microbial life in the past decades have broadened our definition of life-enabling environmental conditions and discoveries of new classes of only intermittently alive cells/spores have broadened our definition of life itself.

    Plus, apart from satisfying our curiosity, we will very likely get some insights into our own biochemistry along the way.