Daily Mail News UK – Science
By SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:23 EDT, 11 August 2023 | UPDATED: 11:48 EDT, 11 August 2023
Martian hunters are getting excited by cracked mud on the Red Planet.
A new paper suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to microbial life.
Scientists aren’t certain how life began on Earth, but one prevailing theory says persistent cycles of wet and dry conditions on land helped assemble the complex chemical building blocks necessary to start life.