By NASA
October 9, 2021
Is Mars habitable? Is there capacity for life today deep underneath the Martian crust?
Is Mars habitable? Well, possibly.
The concern is, “Is it habitable and for whom?”
Mars is numerous degrees colder than Earth; it has a hundred times less atmosphere and that atmosphere has barely any oxygen. There might be other forms of life that might have evolved that arent very much like us however are extremely much like the early forms of life that developed on Earth.
Mars has evidence of being warmer in the past and of having stable liquid surface water for potentially numerous countless years. So, its possible that in Mars past there was a time where life might have progressed because particular environment.
We have actually been trying to definitively address whether Mars is habitable, and since yet, the answer is still absolutely maybe.