18 Oct Would We Understand Alien Lifestyle If We Saw It?
And also have we already seen it on Mars?
As of this minute, seven robotic spacecraft are roving or orbiting Mars, using pictures, collecting information, and generally speaking doing the putting in a bid of researchers right right straight back in the world. After 15 years with this constant robotic existence, we understand the Red Planet a lot better than any globe besides our very own. And scientists that are planetary a solution, finally, to at least one of these earliest and a lot of fundamental questions: Could Mars support life?
The solution is yes: definitely in past times, and extremely perhaps today. The project’s principal investigator, announced with confidence: “We have found a habitable environment,” one where substantial amounts of surface water existed billions of years ago in 2013, less than a year after Curiosity touched down in the ancient lakebed Gale Crater, John Grotzinger.