Girelom t1_j1baisn wrote
Reply to comment by zoicyte in Mars' ancient atmosphere may not have had much oxygen after all by pecika
How much of this problems can be avoided if life presented as bacteria who live deep underground?
zoicyte t1_j1bcsxs wrote
If you’re asking if it’s possible there could be life underground it’s definitely not impossible. Archea on earth lives in similarly extreme environments.
Basically you need at least two conditions to exist: liquid water for chemistry and an energy source. It’s possible. It won’t be very complex, you aren’t going to find a cavern full of dinosaurs, but simple cellular bacteria? It isn’t impossible to imagine conditions that would be compatible with some of the extremophiles that live on earth.
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