The issue of past life on Mars
I think the fact we see a very complex history being displayed at the
Pathfinder site, involving changes in climate, involving large quantities
of liquid water, involving volcanic activity that's more complicated than
we suspected before. All of these comes to play, come to bear on the
question of life and I would say it enhances the possibilities of life on
Mars. It doesn't mean that life did originate there, that it started
there, or that it exists there today. It simply means that the
environmental conditions, the factors that are conducive to life are more
favorable than we might have thought before.
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