Mars — but it's hiding underground. Nathalie Cabrol is director of the Carl Sagan Centre for Research which is part of the SETI ("search for extraterrestrial intelligence") Institute.In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, she challenges common assumptions about the Red Planet by arguing that a microbial biosphere (a life-supporting region) may be thriving there.However over the last 4 billion years, she theorises these lifeforms could have moved underground.Prof Cabrol has studied "Mars analogs", which are cold, dry, inhospitable places on Earth that mimic the conditions on Mars as closely as possible, such as Antarctica.This research shows that even landscapes that look barren may in fact support life.Other than the.
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