Re:Will we kill or contaminate microbial life on Mars?
by CoryG89 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:04AM
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I don't know much about microbiology, but I'm not sure that there will definitely be a huge difference between microbes on Earth and microbes on Mars. It could very well be that life was delivered to Earth from Mars at some point in the distant past.
Perhaps the only places that microbial life exists on Mars are in places that have conditions similar to Earth. Underground water, etc.
Re:Will we kill or contaminate microbial life on Mars?
by John23832 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:57AM
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Even if Mars seeded Earth, evolutionary pressure and the passage of time would make Earth microbes and Martian ones very different. Which goes to my point.
Perhaps the only places that microbial life exists on Mars are in places that have conditions similar to Earth. Underground water, etc.