For decades, scientists have posited that to find life on Mars they first need to find water. And in the absence of water, they have tried to see what happens when they introduce it onto the planet.
Buta new paper from German astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch suggests scientists have taken the wrong approach — and might actually be killing life on Mars in the process.
Schulze-Makuch published his theory in Nature Astronomy in September in an article titled, “We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.”
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