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Life on Mars
This animated clip explains how we know that there are no “bug-eyed” monsters on Mars but that there could be microbes. In the past these microbes may have travelled on lumps of rock from Mars and landed on the Earth or vice versa. So did life come from Mars, or did past life on Mars come from Earth?
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