Every few years excited headlines break out about how life might have been discovered on Mars only to later find out it was just a bunch of chemical reactions. Nothing more.
I keep waiting for these morons to give up on this “quest”. I think they have been brainwashed into it (Carl Sagan).
Life will be on Mars WHEN WE BRING IT THERE!
For crying out loud, have the probe throw out some seeds, spores, whatever; dump some water on it; and up-end a salad-bowl over the top of it. The camera images are bound to be more entertaining than just more pictures of rocks. I’ll bet SOMETHING can live there.