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Asked by cooljpx7 to James, Jen, Susanna on 21 Mar 2013.
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Susanna Martin answered on 21 Mar 2013:
Hi Cooljpx7, I don’t know whether you know this but NASA are currently exploring Mars with a robot called curiosity, it is doing all kinds of experiments on the surface and some of these are to try and understand if Mars could support life. They’ve already found evidence in rock samples that a long time ago Mars could have supported microbes, have a look at their website here http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html or you can follow the Curiosity Rover on twitter https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity.
So in answer to your question I don’t know if there are aliens currently, but nasa has found evidence that it would have once been possible. Perhaps you could ask this question in the Space zone where they might know a bit more about mars!
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Jen Todd Jones answered on 21 Mar 2013:
Hey coolj!
This is a great question, the answer is we don’t know, but if there are aliens they might well be very different aliens to what we might imagine from films! Life as we know it is based on carbon and we believe these lifeforms need water to survive so it’s become a huge race to find water on Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars). Tiny microbes could have once lived on the surface of the planet which represents life to us, but it may or may not have evolved as we have into fully-fledged large animals.
Similar to Susie’s links on Twitter there is another person pretending to be the Mars rover, called sarcastic rover, it’s hilarious – check it out!
https://twitter.com/SarcasticRoverJen
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cooljpx7 commented on :
thanks you so much 🙂