It’s the perfect environment for microorganisms.Ice Ice BabyResearchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are positing that Mars’ ultra-thick water ice deposits, which hold dark dust and snow drifts from past ice ages, could be key in discovering some form of life there.This new study published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment argues that the ice layers on Mars could be thick and dark enough from their dusty contents to block out solar radiation that gets in through Mars’ ultra-thin atmosphere.According to the researchers’ computer modeling experiments, the ice may stay…
