translated from Spanish: Water on Mars could lodge life

photograph / El Informador salt water, estimate the scientists, is under the glacier surface of Mars, could contain the potential of enough oxygen to allow the existence of life, says a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, which was performed by a team of scientists from the California Institute of technology.
Experts created a model of the hypothetical formation of salt water and, based on this, got to calculate the alleged amount of oxygen that exist in the Martian subsurface.
The report indicates that the composition of this liquid could, in general, provide living conditions for aerobic microbes. Even in other regions of the red planet, the oxygen concentration can be so much that it would enable the existence of animals such as sponges or porifera.
By now, several questions remain unresolved. Among them, the most important and refers to the existence of the above formations of water under the ice surface of the planet. However, the results of the study extends the possibility of finding life there.
Dr. Vlada Stamenković, scientific of the JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and leader of the study, said: no one has ever thought that these concentrations of dissolved oxygen, necessary for aerobic respiration, could theoretically exist on Mars.
research exposes the possibility that “the modern planet Mars may exist aerobic life, as well as on other celestial bodies with oxygen sources, independent of photosynthesis”.
Source: Big media

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