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A new study has found that ancient Mars may have been able to support a large population of microscopic organisms. The study suggests the microorganisms might have been growing just beneath the Mars surface about 4 billion years ago.
Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. 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. The findings provide a bleak…