Little Green Men Or Just Little Microscopic Organisms?

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only see a cold red planet, which was probably due
to a collision of an astroid that would have set back the evolution process of
Mars, causing it to be a harsh planet. A Viking spacecraft which landed on Mars
in 1976 found that the planet was bathed in ultraviolet radiation, "intense
enough so it would probably fry any microbe we know on this planet,"says Jack
Farmer, an Ames researcher who calls himself an "exopaleontologist"—a searcher
for fossils on other worlds. The redness of Mars is due to the chemical assault
known as oxidation, which turns iron compounds into rust, and it would surely
kill anything that sticks its head up.
"So why do you still believe that there is life on Mars?" you say. Life
on Mars is not located on the ultraviolet radiation oxidized surface. The
microbes are found below it, probably located in the boiling hot springs, or in
frozen time capsules. Life here on Earth are located in some strange places so
why wouldn't the Martian microbes be found in ...

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