Mars May Have Had Life Until Climate Change Ended It, New Study Suggests (only 8.26 years left)

Best Life Online ^ | 10/15/22 | Michael Martin

[Libloather]

Mars is increasingly in the viewfinder of planetary scientists, as NASA has made it a goal to send a manned mission to the red planet, sending rovers to its surface and developing technology to prepare for human exploration. The increased focus on Mars has led to some intriguing discoveries - most recently, that life might have existed on the planet before climate change ended it. That's the suggestion of a new study; read on to find out more.

Researchers from the University of Arizona aren't positive there was once life on Mars (in a news release, they call it a "big if"), but they've determined that conditions on the young planet could have supported it. In their study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers note that today Mars is dry and freezing cold, seemingly uninhabitable. But four billion years ago, the planet had an atmosphere that was conducive to life - rich in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which would have allowed water to flow and microbes to flourish.

"Our study shows that underground, early Mars would very likely have been habitable to methanogenic microbes," said Regis Ferrière, a University of Arizona professor and senior author of the paper. These kinds of microbes live by converting chemical energy from their environment and releasing methane as waste. Some of the same kinds of microbes exist in extreme habitats on Earth, such as hydrothermal vents along fissures in the ocean floor.

"The research team tested a hypothetical scenario of an emerging Martian ecosystem by using models of Mars' crust, atmosphere and climate, coupled with an ecological model of a community of Earthlike microbes metabolizing carbon dioxide and hydrogen," the university said in a news release. They determined that about 4 billion years ago, Mars' atmosphere contained a high amount of hydrogen...

[snoringbear]

Eventually, they will find buried in the sand an old rusted out suv. That will confirm life once existed and why it ended, sarc/…

[VRW Conspirator]

Climate change also ended life on the sun. It's true. Probably. Science.

Yes, but you can only see it at night. Just ask AOC.

[A_perfect_lady]

Were the amoeba using fossil fuels?

[EandH Dad]

These people are not idiots. They are very smart. Smart enough to know they can’t make a decent living on their own so they have to weasel it out of the ruling elite. They’re counting on the great unwashed masses focused on their own day to day struggle and not on the man behind the curtain.

[bert]

The way to end the man caused climate change is to end the man caused climate change wackos. The wackos are the problem

[unread]

"life might have existed on the planet before climate change ended it."

Absolutely.. When they start looking under the surface of Mars their going to find a bunch of them damned Chevys...

[unread]

Lets send AOC and young Greta to Mars as soon as possible, so they can save it..!

[fella]

The terms “might have” and “could have” means they have no evidence and are just pushing a favored fad and or agenda.

[Buttons12]

First make sure “life on Mars” was ever a real thing, before you go dragging climate change into the issue.

[Libloather]

The bartender said it and I believe her. The entire planet will go up in smoke unless you start eating plenty of meal worms and crickets. Better get started. It’s true. Probably.

Ocasio-Cortez: ‘World will end in 12 years’ if climate change not addressed

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address/

[Maris Crane]

“may have had”, “suggests” ...WHAT A TOTAL BUNCH OF CRAP.

Thank God I am not the only one who sees it.

Oh, and we “assume” that Mars is where UNICORNS lived...

[Flick Lives]

... that life might have existed on the planet before climate change ended it.

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The climate models can’t get the weekend weather forecast right, but they can totally determine what happened on Mars 4 billion years ago.

[oldasrocks]

Same will happen here soon. The windmills are slowing and changing the wind patterns and will create large climate changes.
Prove me wrong.

[Sgt_Schultze]

“Study”

[Chainmail]

Hey - somebody had to dig all those canals!

[Hat-Trick]

How unfortunate for the Martians of that time who refused to listen to the warnings of climate change from their leaders. See! This is what happens!! It’s science! /s

[Tax-chick]

It’s my fault. I destroyed the flourishing green climate of Mars by driving around in a 15-passenger van full of breathing children.

[PIF]

by John E. Brandenburg PhD (Author)

New proof of a nuclear catastrophe on Mars! In an epic story of discovery, strong evidence is presented for a dead civilization on Mars and the shocking reason for its demise: an ancient planetary-scale nuclear massacre leaving isotopic traces of vast explosions that endure to our present age.

The story told by a wide range of Mars data is now clear. Mars was once Earth-like in climate, with an ocean and rivers, and for a long period became home to both plant and animal life, including a humanoid civilization. Then, for unfathomable reasons, a massive thermo-nuclear explosion ravaged the centers of the Martian civilization and destroyed the biosphere of the planet. But the story does not end there.

This tragedy may explain Fermi's Paradox, the fact that the cosmos, seemingly so fertile and with so many planets suitable for life, is as silent as a graveyard. We must immediately send astronauts to Mars to maximize our knowledge of what happened there, and learn how to avoid Mars' fate.

[Jan_Sobieski]

If only cow flatulence, farm fertilizer, and co2 from US and Dutch factories would have been stopped, little Martians 👽 would still be raising their kids.

[Savage Beast]

Was it Martian-made climate change that ended life on mars?