Posted on 10/16/2022 2:20:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Mars is increasingly in the viewfinder of planetary scientists, as NASA has made it a goal to send a manned mission to the red planet, sending rovers to its surface and developing technology to prepare for human exploration. The increased focus on Mars has led to some intriguing discoveries - most recently, that life might have existed on the planet before climate change ended it. That's the suggestion of a new study; read on to find out more.
Researchers from the University of Arizona aren't positive there was once life on Mars (in a news release, they call it a "big if"), but they've determined that conditions on the young planet could have supported it. In their study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers note that today Mars is dry and freezing cold, seemingly uninhabitable. But four billion years ago, the planet had an atmosphere that was conducive to life - rich in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which would have allowed water to flow and microbes to flourish.
"Our study shows that underground, early Mars would very likely have been habitable to methanogenic microbes," said Regis Ferrière, a University of Arizona professor and senior author of the paper. These kinds of microbes live by converting chemical energy from their environment and releasing methane as waste. Some of the same kinds of microbes exist in extreme habitats on Earth, such as hydrothermal vents along fissures in the ocean floor.
"The research team tested a hypothetical scenario of an emerging Martian ecosystem by using models of Mars' crust, atmosphere and climate, coupled with an ecological model of a community of Earthlike microbes metabolizing carbon dioxide and hydrogen," the university said in a news release. They determined that about 4 billion years ago, Mars' atmosphere contained a high amount of hydrogen...
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The spacecraft we sent to Mars was probably contaminated with bacteria, which is probably dead now, but NASA might “discover” some of it.
Lol. The life must have burned carbon.
These people are idiots!
There’s a lot of theories about how mars lost her atmosphere. Most probably because there’s no rotating core on the inside. There’s no magnetic field protecting it from solar winds which desiccated the planet and blew away the atmosphere. So now ‘climate change’ means somehow my car is stopping the earths molten core from turning to create a magnetic field. Yeah, I dont see that as a reason why we should convert our primary energy resource to burning cow dung to stay warm.
[Mars May Have Had Life Until Climate Change Ended It, New Study Suggests]
My goodness this Al Gore Cult is desperate.........
Yeah, you can see all the abandoned 7-11 stores with a telescope.
And the deserted freeways. And swimming pools, apartment complexes, big cities, marinas........
Now, all abandoned and desolate after ....... CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!! (Boo!)
The term “climate change” is so darn elastic. By the magic of equivocation it means we can link the result of Mars like climate with the actions of humans on Earth that don’t really have much impact on climate outside of flawed computer models and intentionally distorted data.
Just look what Climate Change did to Mercury!!!
If only they’d had carbon credits and had eliminated fossil fuels in time!!
It’s a shame.
It’s a darn shame.
All images from NASA and JPL websites.
“So now ‘climate change’ means somehow my car is stopping the earths molten core from turning to create a magnetic field.”
Which raises a curiosity... What are all the electric car EMF fields going to do? Are these fields even safe for humans when exposed for extended amounts of time?
Blow methane?
May have had life.
Emphasis on “may”. Sadly, Greta and her followers will ignore “may” and scream from the rooftops that life existed on Mars, without any proof.
8.26 years left before climate change kills us? From which prediction when is that?
Please show me exactly how much of this research and study was funded by federal government “climate research” grant money.
Who did this “study”, GRETA??
These climate change idiots are desperate.
Martians probably burned up all the trees... Haven’t seen any in any Mars photos...😱
Wait...what? Mars had people? Cuz only eeeevil people can make climate change...
Also Mars most likely doesn’t have a radioactive core, so it has no protective magnetosphere, unlike Earth. No magnetosphere no long-term atmosphere.
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