Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars, altering the atmosphere so profoundly that they triggered a Martian Ice Age and snuffed themselves out

Strange Sounds

October 11, 2022

Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, a new research shows.

But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so profoundly that they triggered a Martian Ice Age and snuffed themselves out, the researchers concluded.

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