Is there life on Mars? Was there life on Mars?

From the very beginning of his existence, a reasonable person gravitated towards understanding the world around him and its secrets. Moreover, he wanted to gain knowledge not only about those things with which he usually dealt and not only about the places where his life passed. He wanted to know much more.

Probably from the very moment when a person first raised his head to the sky, his interest in what exists outside the sphere of his immediate activity began. After all, turning his gaze upward, he saw a huge yellow sun, and the moon, and myriads of stars spread across the endless expanses of the sky, among which was a very unusual star with a bright orange, even fiery glow - the planet Mars.

Over time, people began to be interested in things on a universal scale. Do extraterrestrial intelligence, alien civilizations, other races of intelligent living beings exist? And today one of the most important and pressing questions has become: Why there? In this short article we will give a brief overview of the information available in this regard.

The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt and Babylon called it the Red Star. Pythagoras suggested giving it the name Piraeus, which meant “fiery.” The ancient Greeks called her Ares (Ares is the ancient Greek god of war). And since in Roman mythology the god of war was Mars, the planet eventually began to be called that. Although in Rus' until the 18th century, Greek names for planets were in use, and therefore Mars was called Ares or Arris.

To date, many space missions have been carried out (successful and not), which has made it possible to learn a lot about it. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun (after Earth) and our closest cosmic neighbor (along with Venus). Distance from the Sun - 228 million km. And from the Earth - 55.76 million km (when the position of the Earth is exactly between Mars and the Sun) and 401 million km (when the position of the Sun is exactly between Mars and the Earth). Its diameter is 6670 km, which is almost two times smaller

The atmosphere consists of 75% carbon dioxide, and the remaining 25% is carbon dioxide mixed with This makes life on Mars, to put it mildly, unlikely. But climatic conditions theoretically allow for the possibility of water existing on the surface in a liquid state. And water, as you know, is the source of life. Atmospheric pressure on the planet is 160 times lower than on Earth. The air temperature during the day is about +15 °C, and at night it drops to -80 °C (at the poles to -143 °C). The planet's surface is cold, deserted and dry. And sandstorms black out the sky for weeks and months.

Be that as it may, Mars is the only planet of all that is most similar to Earth and most suitable for life. More and more new photographs of the Martian surface indicate that there were times on Mars when water played a significant role - formations were discovered that resemble river beds and places where there could be lakes and even seas.

Some scientists hypothesize that there was life on Mars, but then a severe environmental disaster occurred (the fall of giant meteorites) or even a war that destroyed all life on the planet. Theoretically, huge craters extending far into its depths can serve as evidence of this.

Nowadays, Martian meteorites found in various parts of the Earth are subject to serious research. The first information about them dates back to 1984. And in 1996, a report was published about traces of the activity of biological organisms found on one of the meteorites. Methane was also found - a gas that cannot exist on its own in the atmosphere for a long time, which means it is being released by something. Its source, of course, could be the volcanoes of Mars, but it could also be bacteria.

Official data also states that many mysterious discoveries have been made on the red planet. For example, the face of the Martian Sphinx, facing the sky, as well as various holes of the correct shape and formations, which could be pyramids.

In addition, evidence that American authorities have data confirming that life has been found on Mars can be found in the fact that many photographs taken during Martian expeditions were carefully hidden or even destroyed by order “from above.” And in conversations with representatives of the authorities and various government agencies, there is obvious insincerity and a desire to hide something.

But the greatest excitement now is not even around this, but around the expedition to Mars. The Mars One company plans to send people to Mars in order to prepare the ground for the future colonization of the new planet. The news is amazing, but the fact that it will be a one-way flight is not encouraging. Modern technologies make it possible to create a device on which people can get to Mars and land on its surface. But they do not allow launching from the planet to return back to Earth. There is an official statement that the Mars One company has already found sponsors and received the first money for the project.

There are few specific details about the irrevocable expedition yet. But it is known that 4 people will take part in it, and the selection of volunteers has already begun (despite the fact that the mission is irrevocable, there is an unimaginable number of them and new ones continue to appear). The start of the expedition is scheduled for 2023. If this happens, then people will land on the red planet in 2027. They will spend their entire future lives in a Martian settlement, built in advance for them by robots sent earlier.

In July 2015, it is already planned to complete the selection of applicants for the flight. There will be 24 of them. For the next 7 years, teams of 4 people will prepare for the mission.

At the same time, NASA plans to send the first interplanetary expedition even further than Mars - to the asteroid belt. There is virtually no information about this expedition at all. But it is known that the flight will last longer than the flight to Mars (more than four years). And the members of the expedition will be able to return to Earth.

In conclusion, it is worth noting that no one can now give an exact answer to the question of whether there is life on Mars. There are constant disputes. More and more new data is appearing. New theories and hypotheses are brought forward. But one thing is certain: Mars is a planet on which life is possible. Let's hope that further research into this question in the relatively near future will be able to give us a reliable answer. Who knows, perhaps our closest cosmic neighbors are Martians?!

Photographs taken on Mars by the self-propelled robot "Spirit", in combination with numerous photographs of the surface of the Red Planet, allow us to conclude that complex forms of life developed in the solar system not only on Earth. The redness of Mars is not accidental. It arose due to the oxidation and hydration of deep-seated ferruginous rocks - basalts and andesites. At the same time, like rust on nails, red-brown iron hydroxide - the mineral limonite - appears. In geology, this process is called red weathering.

On Earth, red flowers arise in a hot equatorial climate with an abundance of water and oxygen in the atmosphere. If all the forests on Earth are cut down, the wind will scatter iron oxides across the deserts, and our planet will also become red like Mars. The red color in Space is unusual because it is the color of life, the color of blood, the color of ferric iron. In order for black basalts with divalent iron to become covered with a red crust of ferric hydroxide, water and free atmospheric oxygen are required, in other words, photosynthesis is needed, life is necessary.

I estimate that it would take 4,000 trillion tons of free oxygen to rust the surface of Mars to a depth of one kilometer. For comparison, I note that the Earth’s atmosphere contains “only” 1200 trillion tons of oxygen, although the Earth is 9 times more massive than Mars.

It is possible that oxidation processes on Mars extended to a much greater depth in its lithosphere. This conclusion can be made since the thickness of the red sands that make up the cliffs of the grandiose Mariner Gorge exceeds 10 km. This means that a dense oxygen atmosphere created by life has existed on Mars for billions of years. Obviously, this time was quite enough for the evolution of bacteria and the emergence of complex organisms.

Perhaps evolution went faster on Mars. After all, life on Earth remained for a long time at an extremely primitive level, and over 2.5 billion years it “grew up” only to jellyfish and worms. Only in the Paleozoic, 570 million years ago, did the formation of complex organisms begin.

According to geological concepts, the Earth became a planet of primitive mammals quite recently, only 65 million years ago. Then a global environmental disaster occurred, associated with the fall of two large asteroids with a diameter of about 8 km, one in the Gulf of Mexico, the other on the coast of the Kara Sea. Part of the Earth's atmosphere was torn off during the explosions and carried into space with streams of hot plasma. The climate became noticeably colder, and the bones of the planet's owners, dinosaurs, witnesses of that time, remained in Mesozoic sediments.

Remains of cities?

The modern atmosphere of Mars is very rare, corresponding to the Earth's stratosphere at an altitude of more than 30 km. However, hurricanes rage here, raising dense clouds of red sand and piling up giant dunes up to a kilometer high in depressions (frozen oceans). The atmosphere contains 95% CO2, 5% nitrogen and argon, and 0.1% O2. This oxygen is either residual from a past life, or it is evidence of lichens and algae that survived in the warm microclimate at the bottom of the Gorge Marineris. But the oxygen content is negligible; Mars could not rust from such an atmosphere. Why did the dense oxygen atmosphere disappear there?

A real sensation in its time was the discovery of a well-developed Martian system of river valleys, which the Americans stubbornly called “canals.” These were real dry river beds with clearly defined terraces, flowing into depressions (oceans). They were not covered with sand and are perfectly preserved. This means that until recently, on a cosmic scale, Mars was warm and rivers flowed. Why did they dry out, why did the oceans freeze to the bottom, and why did permafrost many kilometers deep appear on Mars?

It is clear that quite recently a global catastrophe occurred on the Red Planet, destroying the warm climate, forests, rivers, numerous animals and, as the Spirit photographs show... anthropoids, very similar to the people of Earth. I think that the cause of the disaster was the collapse of the now defunct third satellite of Mars in Martian orbit. The Red Planet now has two abnormally close satellites. These are typical asteroids, the closest one - Phobos flies at a distance of only 5920 km from the surface of Mars, its length is 25, width is 21 km. It is close to the “Roche limit” - the distance at which the satellite is torn apart by internal tidal forces and, in the presence of an atmosphere, falls onto the planet.

Apparently, the third satellite, which should be called Thanatos (Death), passed the Roche limit quite recently. The fall of the giant's debris, weighing hundreds of trillions of tons, completely destroyed all life and the atmosphere, thrown into space with streams of plasma. The falling debris left hundreds of huge fresh craters with a diameter of tens and hundreds of kilometers, and limonite was calcined to 800 0C and turned into the mineral maghemite, magnetic red iron oxide - gamma-Fe2O3.

Maghemite was found in large quantities in the limonite sands of Mars, this is clear evidence of the powerful calcination of the red weathering crust. We also found maghemite in Yakutia, where it arose during the calcination of ferruginous weathering crusts of basalts during the explosion of the huge Popigai asteroid 35 million years ago.

Scull?

The hypothesis about the recent death of life on Mars, expressed by me back in 1992, was actually confirmed by the sensational discoveries of the self-propelled robot “Spirit” in the Gusev crater. Amazing objects were discovered here, practically indistinguishable from... ordinary human skulls - with eye sockets and a hole where the nose should have been. Three skulls have already been photographed. The skulls are externally white, shiny, and have nothing in common with rock fragments. Gray stones very similar to human busts were also found here. These may be the heads of people with a small mouth and a large nose, like the Mayans. And an absolutely amazing find - a figurine of a seated woman about half a meter high, with a gracefully outstretched hand.

Of course, this is not a “game of nature.” I myself am a field geologist, I spent my whole life in mountains and deserts, but I have never seen “stones” of this shape. It appears as if the rover is crawling through an ancient cemetery where statues stood and skulls emerged from the soil due to wind erosion. To distinguish skulls from stones, it is enough to do a simple chemical analysis of these objects for phosphorus and calcium: there is a lot of them in bones, but little in rocks.

The rover also photographed a mysterious object that bears a striking resemblance to the skull of a large bird such as an ostrich or lizard. The eye sockets, large beak or long jaws are clearly visible. If a geologist encounters such “miracles” on Earth, he has no doubt that he is dealing with the fossil remains of ancient people or animals. Why should an exception be made for Mars?

Images from space also revealed rectangular objects, very similar to the sand-filled foundations of destroyed buildings. Another amazing discovery is the image of a flat triangular UFO about 100 m in size that crashed onto Mars. This object was missing from the 1965 photo and appeared in the 1976 photo. The UFO is split in half and lies 15 miles from the Viking 1 landing site in 1976. The photo clearly shows the grooves dug in the sand when the UFO fell...

One cannot ignore NASA photographs in which several types of UFOs are clearly visible in the sky of Mars. We must not forget that some of the Soviet and American probes mysteriously disappeared in preparation for a soft landing on Mars, and in space pilot centers the impression arose that the spacecraft were... captured by a UFO: in the last photographs transmitted to Earth, some - a huge object approaching them.

These facts taken together are too serious to ignore. They indicate that, in addition to forests, various animals and anthropoids lived on Mars. It is still unknown which of us was more developed - earthlings or the disappeared Martians. It is possible that we are brothers, genetic descendants of Martians, whose technical development allowed them to escape from the doomed ecosystem of Mars several tens of thousands of years ago. Perhaps there was an intervention by a highly developed civilization - aliens with UFOs.

I repeat that the catastrophe on Mars happened recently - only a few tens of thousands of years ago. This is evidenced by the excellent preservation of relief forms - river valleys and meteorite craters, as well as bone remains, despite powerful dust storms.

Fantastic?.. Almost fantastic. We must not forget that Cro-Magnons, people of the modern type, appeared on Earth 40 thousand years ago mysteriously, without transitional forms, replacing the beast-like Neanderthal. Maybe advanced settlers from Mars changed the genes of Neanderthals?.. Maybe the collapse of Thanatos and the asteroid attack of its debris, which destroyed life on Mars, were timed precisely at this time? We have to admit that modern scientific discoveries are increasingly, despite their reality, of a fantastic nature.

Alexander Portnov,
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences,
Professor

http://www.promved.ru

Claimastronauts And dreamers,

What on Mars will apple trees blossom..

Song of Soviet times by V. Muradeli - V. Dolmatovsky

Interest in Mars as a planet close to Earth has always been high among all generations of people. Scientists have been unraveling the mysteries of the planet for hundreds of years, but their number is only growing and sometimes surpasses the size of Mars itself. After all, few people remember that the Red Planet is 2 times smaller in size than the Earth, and its mass is only 1/10 of the Earth’s mass. And it is called Red because of the presence of a large amount of iron oxide in its soil. The planet's dust gives it a pink tint.

Basic information about Mars

Physical characteristics of the planet Mars

Mars - fourth by distance from the Sun and the seventh largest planet in the solar system.

The planet rotates around its axis in 24 hours 37 minutes 22.7 seconds, and completes a full revolution around the star in 668.6 Martian solar days, called solami, which is 687 Earth days.

The change of seasons and time of day on Mars is almost similar to those on Earth.

Atmospheric pressure according to NASA at the average radius is 636 Pa (6.36 mbar). The density of the atmosphere at the surface is about 0.020 kg/m³, the total mass of the atmosphere of Mars is about 2.5 × 10 16 kg.

The gravity of the planet is much less than that of Earth; a person, even jumping slightly, can rise 3 times higher than on Earth.

And on July 26, 2018, it was reported that quite significant reserves of water in the form of ice were found under the surface of the Moon by Italian scientists using the Marsis radar in the form of an underground lake with a diameter of about 20 kilometers at a depth of about 1.5 kilometers under the ice layer.

Traces of water have been found in the lunar atmosphere at the south pole.

Liquid water has been found on Mars. The long-awaited discovery was made by Italian scientists

And more recently, American scientists discovered streams visible on the surface of Mars; dark stripes up to 5 meters wide are visible in the images, which appear only during the Martian summer. Most likely, these traces are left by water of very high salinity, which thaws at the equator of Mars. The previous hypothesis about some hidden source of water located at great depths inside Mars is still just a hypothesis.

Mars has the highest mountains in the solar system, so Olympus- not only the highest peak of Mars, but also the entire solar system, reaching about 27 kilometers.

By analogy with mountains, the planet is also famous for its gorges. The deepest gorge in the Marineris Valley is a 7-kilometer gorge with a length of about 4,000 km.

The thin atmosphere of Mars consists of only 0.1% oxygen, 95% carbon dioxide, nitrogen 2.7% and argon 1.6%.

Is there life on Mars

The famous question of the famous comedy “Is there life on Mars, is there life on Mars...” is still open. However, everything that is known to science today allows us to conclude that perhaps there was life once, perhaps there is now, but only at the initial stage of development, at the level of single-celled or simple organisms. But this is life!

Sharp fluctuations in night and day temperatures from - 80 ºC (at the poles -143 ºC) at night until +30 ºC at noon on the equator of Mars, strong hot winds, high rarefaction of the atmosphere - all this suggests the impossibility of survival of living organisms (similar to those on Earth) on the planet. However, one should not deny the fact-assumption that there may be other forms of life that can do without oxygen, water and live at low temperatures.

But the presence on the planet of a huge amount of that same iron oxide gives us the right to assume that previously there was no less oxygen on Mars than on Earth, and the vegetation there was simply raging. Which once again confirms the former population of Mars.

The surface of the planet, dotted with canyons and dry riverbeds, testifies to the existence of once huge reserves of water. Now these channels are covered with ice and covered with red sand.

The planet is experiencing a period of great glaciation similar to the last terrestrial glaciation, which ended here 12-15 thousand years ago and is still ongoing on Mars. According to photographs taken from Mars and further computer modeling of images performed by Russian scientists, traces of a large Martian city are visible on the surface of the planet. However, it is not possible to prove that these are actually buildings made by intelligent beings.

There are opinions, not scientifically confirmed and having the status of a hypothesis, that the Martians moved from their planet to the one closest to them and which had conditions close to those of Mars, that is, to Earth and gave impetus to the development of earthlings. And this happened only some 12-15 thousand years ago. What could destroy Martian life? After all, as a rule, glaciation itself only changes the forms of life, but is not the reason for its complete disappearance. Perhaps life on the planet was destroyed by the impacts of giant asteroids that hit Mars.

Another version: life on Mars was destroyed by an invasion. Be that as it may, it has not yet been possible to prove the existence, at least in the past, of intelligent life on Mars. I repeat, this opinion is just someone’s fantasy.

Scientific exploration of Mars

Today, Mars is the most studied planet in the solar system and space in general, thanks to the large number of satellites and self-propelled vehicles launched from Earth, which are still roaming the expanses of the Red Planet. Our country is involved in research and has launched a whole series of satellites to Mars, including Phobos-1 and Phobos-2; the experiments, unfortunately, were unsuccessful.

On March 14, 2016, the Proton-M rocket with the interplanetary module of the Russian-European mission ExoMars-2016 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ship is heading to Mars to look for traces of life on the Red Planet. Around October 2016, the system will reach the planet and split up - one module will remain in orbit of the planet, the second will begin its descent to its surface. According to experts, braking alone against the atmosphere of Mars will take about a year. Scientific data will arrive on the ground in early 2017.

Another launch to Mars is planned for 2018 with a Russian landing platform and a European rover. We will monitor the research results.

The future of Mars

Alas, despite all the planned research, which is important in general as a scientific understanding of space, human dreams of traveling to the Red Planet, as well as dreams of the possibilities of planting gardens there, are not destined to come true.

Mars is predicted to die soon from its satellite Phobos, whose orbit is gradually decreasing and this fact will lead to its fall onto the surface of Mars. But you and I are not destined to be witnesses of this event, as may be the case for all of humanity, because the process will happen far away, not tomorrow, but after 7-10 million years.

In the meantime, we will continue to peer into the starry sky, looking for this mysterious Red Planet Mars with our eyes. And make every possible attempt to understand and comprehend the deep processes that have occurred and continue on the amazingly mysterious planet Mars, so distant and close to us.

P.S. And this is what the media reported on Today, October 20, 1916: “The device landed on the planet, but it is not yet possible to diagnose its condition.” The European Space Agency (ESA) later wrote on Twitter that a signal was being received from the module, but there was no telemetry data.

ESA clarified that the emergency situation with Schiaparelli occurred after the deployment of the brake parachutes, the landing of the device was abnormal, and there is no data yet that it crashed. But Alexander Zheleznyakov, academician of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, believes that nothing good is worth expecting.

Although within 10 days there is still little hope of establishing communication with the module, this is precisely the time the module’s batteries are designed for. The cost of the ExoMars-2016 project amounted to several hundred million dollars.

From the moment the seasonal melting of the Martian polar caps was discovered, it was believed that on the Red Planet there is water, which means life is possible. Scientists have been arguing for a long time about whether there is life on Mars.

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Was there life on Mars

Many scientists are confident that life once existed on Mars. And there are many reasons for this:

1. Traces of water corrosion were found on the planet, dry river beds and lakes. The evidence was the discovery solid water.
2. Robots find organic matter, and in particular, methane and its connections. The presence of such components indicates that conditions for the origin of life were on the planet.
3. It has been established with a high degree of certainty that the temperature on the planet used to be higher. It had a magnetic field and a fairly dense atmosphere.

If we talk about intelligent life, there is no evidence that it was there. Whether they will be discovered in the near future is unknown. So far, limited areas of the surface and airspace have been explored.

Important! From time to time, photographs taken by space telescopes and orbital stations with man-made structures depicted appear in the media. However, scientists are skeptical about them. Most often it is just a visual illusion, a play of light and shadow. This is proven by images taken at other times of the Martian day.

Is life possible there?

If everything is more or less clear with the question of whether there was life on Mars, then another question arises.

Is it possible for the planet to be revived? We can safely say that she will soon will be populated people from Earth.

There are several programs for its colonization. Such developments are available not only in the United States, but also in China and Russia.

What is on the planet

What is there on Mars that makes it worth going on a long journey? Is it worth exploring the planet, searching on it? the beginnings of civilization(if they were) or life? There no oil deposits or gas, rare metals, diamonds or gold. At least they're still not detected. Reasons why the planet attracts earthlings:

1. Mars is a kind of " Noah's Ark" Stephen Hawking argued that earthlings need at least one more planet in case the first one turns out to be unsuitable.
2. There are processes taking place on the planet that may occur on Earth in the future or have occurred in the past. This will allow you to calculate the time and build by that time spacious shelters.
3. If there there was a civilization or there are highly developed humanoids on the planet, it’s not a sin to communicate with them and learn useful information from them for earthlings technology.

Whatever the goals of governments and space agencies, ordinary people want to know whether we are alone in the universe. If not, then why don’t aliens from other planets want to communicate with earthlings?

Do Martians exist?

Regarding life forms such as animals or humanoids, then it is more likely they're not there. So far none of the sent robots have detected no animals, no traces of them. As for other life forms such as bacteria or lichens, then perhaps they live in the deep mountain faults and gorges: where water can be in a liquid state. But scientists refute that theory, because with the pressure existing there, which is 150 times less than that on Earth, water boils at +10 degrees. Under such conditions the origin of life is impossible.

It's possible that there there are living beings, different from the forms familiar to earthlings. For example, breathable not oxygen, but carbon dioxide, having a completely different chemical composition. These are life forms for which the climatic conditions of Mars are natural. For earthlings, this fact should not be fantastic. After all, plants breathe carbon dioxide, but can Martians breathe like that? There are places on Earth where living conditions are no less harsh, but adapted species live there bacteria, mosses and lichens. Therefore, the discovery of living creatures on the Red Planet should not be surprising.

Was Mars inhabited?

The fact that Mars was an inhabited planet is evidenced not only by landscape features.

In images taken from the Viking 7 rover, rocks are visible traces of water corrosion. This suggests that it used to rain there often.

And the planet acquired its red color due to its high content iron oxide in soil. Therefore, on Mars there was a high oxygen level in the atmosphere.

Therefore, it is more likely it was previously inhabited: it was inhabited by animals and plants close to those of the earth. The same elements participated in their breathing and metabolic processes in the body.

According to American scientists, this planet 4 billion years ago was inhabited by giant insects and bacteria. Tall trees and grasses grew, like earthly eucalyptus trees. But a catastrophe on a planetary scale occurred, and they all died out. As evidence they cite what was found in Antarctica asteroid. This piece of debris came to Earth from the Red Planet. Hardened remains of bacteria, similar to earthly ones, but only larger.

Do bacteria live there?

In 2005, the Curiosity rover landed on the planet. conducted an experiment with soil and took the analysis. The robot sent the received data to Earth. The results of the analysis shocked scientists and became another reason for heated debate. The figures turned out to be higher than they would have been in the absence of life, but less than that enough to confirm its presence. However, scientists hope that at least bacteria and protozoa, but there is no absolute confirmation of this. The question: “Is there life on Mars?” remains open.

What was he like before?

Recently, it has become fashionable to model the appearance of the planet using various computer programs before there was a disaster. A model of the past is being built based on earthly experience and ideas about what conditions were there, what vegetation covered the bottom of the seas and the oceans, what its inhabitants looked like.

Scientists can only hypothesize about what the planet was like before. In reality, it will be possible to talk about studying Martian history only after successful colonization. Information about the planet does not allow us to answer with certainty whether there was or is life possible on mars.

Before the planet was bombed huge asteroids, she was favorable for the origin and development of life. This information about Mars is obtained from the analysis of landscape images. The disaster is evidenced huge craters in the southern hemisphere and the fact that it is smaller than the northern one. Part of the planet was “knocked out” of the gravitational field and scattered across space. Will it be inhabited again? Quite possible.

Important! Some fragments reached the Earth. In total, about 30 fragments were found and more are being found. It is possible that some of the Martian aliens, bacteria and protozoa that flew to Earth in this way settled and live here. But we don’t even know about it.

What is interesting on Mars will become known after receiving data from rovers and research probes.

Will there be life on the Red Planet?

The fact that people will populate Mars is no longer science fiction. But there is a fear that as soon as they install residential modules to receive earthlings, “real Martians” will move into them. That is, bacteria, lichens, and mold will wake up from many years of hibernation.

As is known, there were already on Earth Ice Ages, when almost the entire planet was covered with a crust of ice. But life was reborn again, new species of animals and plants appeared.

It is possible that an attempt to “warm up” the neighboring planet will turn out to be bad for the colonists and the earthlings of the present "War of the Worlds".

According to astronomers, recently Temperatures on the Red Planet are rising. This suggests that she enters a new era of its development. According to calculations made by American scientists from the NASA space agency, the temperature on it will reach terrestrial parameters in 360-390 thousand years.

Attempts by earthlings to somehow speed up this process may backfire on Mars another planetary catastrophe. Therefore, scientists are trying to convey to the world community the possible consequences of the planned activities.

Do humanoids live there?

In contrast to astronomers and physicists, ufologists argue that there there are living and intelligent beings. They do not live on the surface, where they would die from high levels of radiation, but deep underground. To prove it, they show images taken by orbital stations, on which wells with a diameter of 150 meters are visible.

According to ufologists, humanoids a long time ago went deep into the planet, since conditions on the surface no longer safe. Alien technology allows them to live in underground bunkers. So far no one can hypothesize neither refute nor prove. The technology that earthlings use not enough to conduct a full study. Therefore, whether life is possible on Mars not on the surface, but in the depths of the planet, the question remains open.

Information about the planet

Mars is a planet terrestrial group. He is on fourth position from the Sun. Almost twice the size of Earth. Has a weak magnetic field and rarefied atmosphere. A day is equal to 24 hours 37 minutes. The year is twice as long and is 687 days. Tilt relative to the equator similar to earthly.

Temperature at the poles in winter -89 degrees, in summer -39 degrees. At the equator it reaches +18 degrees. Temperature rises uniformly from the poles to the equator. Happens in the summer melting polar caps. Happens in spring and autumn dust storms.

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Conclusion

While technology they don't allow you to check in neighboring planet. One of the ideologists of the resettlement of humanity to other planets, Stephen Hawking, predicted that by the end of this century, people will start to colonize other planets. Whether life is possible on Mars, time will tell.

At different times, no planet has interested humanity as much as the mysterious and incomprehensible Mars. Biologists, geographers, astronomers and even ufologists in various countries of the world community are still speculating about the possibility of life on Mars.

And although there is a lot of evidence of the existence of life on this amazing planet, many refutations have also been found. Therefore, the question remains open, and research and scientific work are ongoing to this day. It is not known for certain why exactly Mars attracts scientists and ordinary people. People began to think about life on it many centuries ago, guided by its similarity to Earth and its close location to our planet. Therefore, with the development of advanced technologies and the development of modern equipment, research is carried out using the latest methods, techniques, and techniques.

Modern methods of knowing the “Red Planet”

Back in 1965, the first photographs of the surface of the planet Mars were taken using the Mariner 4 apparatus. Since then, several advanced spacecraft have been launched, which have helped to take a clearer look at the planet's surface and reveal most of the existing finds.

In addition, more than one expedition in the direction of the “Red” planet is planned in the near future. One of them, perhaps, will put everything in its place and give answers to the questions that concern everyone. In the meantime, we can be content with the considerable information and information that scientists have at this time.

Unsolved mysteries of Mars

Mysterious Mars amazes not only with its greatness, but also with its amazing finds. Many of them, discovered at different times, could well become direct evidence that life did exist on Mars.
For example, scientists from many countries have proven that Mars, dry and cold in our time, once contained abundant water resources on its surface. This is evidenced by the discovered and photographed dry river beds with multiple mouths and branches. Remains of water were also found in the form of ice blocks. This is direct evidence that the planet had its own biosphere, which could imply the existence of humanoids.

Various other finds discovered during numerous studies may well indicate the possible presence of intelligent beings on the “Red” planet. Among them are the following evidence:

• Original formations on the surface of the planet, very similar to human faces - many scientists call this phenomenon Martian sphinxes;
• The so-called “Martian” skulls discovered in one of the craters of Mars (according to most biologists, an analogy can be drawn with the skulls of ancient lizards or even modern cheetahs);
• Several dozen pyramids;
• A small statue - it was assumed that it was a seated woman with her hand outstretched forward (in some photographs you can even see a small pedestal).

There are also several versions of the answer to questions about where a full-fledged, developed civilization could disappear. Starting with the discovery of deep craters on the surface, which could be traces of the fall of many meteorites, and ending with hypotheses about a war on the planet, during which living beings were exterminated. There is also a version about a cosmic catastrophe that once occurred that radically changed the planet Mars.

It is believed that the greatest amount of evidence and successful photographs are possessed by scientists and the military of the United States, but since the 1960s, all information at this level has been kept in the strictest confidence by NASA. Therefore, it is not surprising that America may be one of the first countries to find answers to questions asked centuries ago.

How else can you explore a mysterious planet?

It is worth noting that in many countries the issue of exploring life on Mars is taken as seriously as possible, placing the task at the state level. Research is funded, new spacecraft are invented, and constant observations are conducted.

Quite interesting and unique research was carried out in 2012 by scientists from the DLR - German Aerospace Center. Having collected some types of blue-green algae and lichens in Antarctica and the Alps, scientists placed them in conditions as close as possible to those on Mars. To do this, the atmosphere of the planet Mars was simulated in a separate chamber using a certain pressure, temperature, soil and corresponding solar radiation. During the 34-day period, it was revealed that the plants not only did not die, but were also actively photosynthesizing.

This experiment confirmed the conclusions that living beings (in this case, plants) are completely on Mars, being protected from ultraviolet radiation - for example, in small caves or rocky cracks.

Modern methods make it possible to use even information obtained through mediums. According to various reports from psychics, it can be assumed that Mars was indeed once inhabited by a large number of living beings. To believe such sources or not is another question, as is how in this case the entire planet could be rendered lifeless.