A decade long hunt has hit a major breakthrough as new research suggests the chance of finding life on Mars is slimmer than we thought.
The barren, dusty Red Planet was not always a lifeless mess. In fact, scientists have often theorized that Mars was once covered in vast waterways. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that may be the case, too. However, new research involving that evidence suggests that it might not have been water that left those marks after all and that the chance of finding life on Mars is actually much slimmer than we hoped.
Liquid water is such a vital ingredient for the existence and survival of living organisms. The fact that some of the places we thought water may have flowed could have been created by other means could drastically change the chances that life ever really existed on Mars all those years ago. One of the researchers, Lonneke Roelofs, says that the new research “influences our ideas about water on Mars in general, and therefore our search for life on the planet.
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