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Did small life forms called microbes ever thrive on Mars? Do they today? If you have questions about Mars as habitat for microbial life, here's the place. (Ask about aliens in Pop Culture Mars.)


274 people have submitted 411 questions and cast 8857 votes

Is there life on mars?
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Do we have any idea of what the core of Mars contains?
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 marsupial
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Will we ever discover some kind of fossils of life on Mars ?
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Should we build a tool that could drill, and collect samples from the core of Mars
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 hawk
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Does the methane detected on Mars indicate that there is life on the planet? What are other sources of methane, besides biological?
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Could there be non carbon based live on mars?
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Mars may have been much like Earth 4 billion years ago, then its core cooled down and it lost its magnetic field. Earth may have been much like Venus is today (I think) . Do you think Venus will cool down and be the next earth in , say, 2 billion years?
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 dragonfly
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Are there any caves on Mars?
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 hawk
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Extremophiles in mars?
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What kinds of metabolic processes would Martian life have, according to current extraterrestrial life models and evidence gathered by Phoenix?
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 rabbit
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