Life on Mars killed off by Martians? Shocking study says so
For years, the word ‘Martian' has been a part of our vocabulary. The word simply means forms of life on the planet Mars. But the mainstream nature of the word, unlike Venutian (belonging to Venus) or Mercurian (belonging to Mercury) highlights how people on Earth have always believed in the possibility that life exists on Mars. And while NASA has not found any evidence of life existing at present, it has found evidence for microbial life on Mars that existed millions of years ago. And as scientists try to find out more about the life that existed on Mars, a new study has made a shocking claim. It says that the life of Mars was ended by the first organisms that appeared on the red planet. Read on to know more.
The study was published in the journal Nature and focused on ‘Early Mars habitability and global cooling'. But in its process, the study also made some big claims. One of them was that the early microbes that existed on the planet altered its atmosphere to an extent that it caused the end of all life on the red planet.
It is a future that has been predicted by many environmentalists for the Earth with the rise of global warming and increasing climate change. However, this predicament for Earth has been caused by humans which were created as an accident as multicellular animals with high intelligence. It is strange to think that unicellular life on Mars was capable of creating such an inhospitable environment to cause their own demise.
But that is what Boris Sauterey, a postdoctoral researcher at Sorbonne University, Paris and the lead author of the study proposes. In a statement reported by The Sun, he said, “Life – even simple life, like microbes – might actually commonly cause its own demise”.
So, how did it happen?
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