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We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly 50 years ago (bigthink.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ooli to c/space
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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A key thing to take from this is that we MIGHT have destroyed the only life we have found SO FAR. There is a LOT of Mars to explorer and we haven't even left the landing sight when looking at the surface of the planet as a whole. Exploration and science will never be perfectly clean. If there is life we will find it at some point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Right. The odds of us just happening to land at the exact spot with the only life on the entire planet are vanishingly small.