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We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago

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Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea

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We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago - JSTOR Daily

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We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars

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Worth noting the article argues we killed life on Mars inside of a sample taken, NOT all life on Mars.
- great article, but the clickbait title is clearly intended to be misleading
- A very important distinction.
I do agree with the conclusion. - A new mission dedicated to answering the question of life on Mars is warranted. Earthbound discoveries of extremophile microbial life in the past decades have broadened our definition of life-enabling environmental conditions and discoveries of new classes of only intermittently alive cells/spores have broadened our definition of life itself.
Plus, apart from satisfying our curiosity, we will very likely get some insights into our own biochemistry along the way.