Detecting bacteria in ice can prove life on Mars

Mineral pieces with microbial community in green ice

An international team of scientists has discovered 'a rare and rare microbial community' in the ice while conducting an ice cap in Norway. According to them, this finding may prove that Mars has life.

This microbial community exists in blue ice core cores and may be 1 million years old.This is an extremely harsh environment, not conducive to life.

Hans Amundsen, a researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway, while studying the Sverrefjell volcano on the Svalbard Islands in northern Norway in a scientific research program discovered the microbial community.

In this program, scientists carried out the drilling of the ice cap at Spitzberg volcano on the Svalbard archipelago.According to them, this is the only area on Earth that can find ferromagnetic ore crystals - a mineral similar to that in a meteorite that was discovered in Antarctica in 1996.

Andrew Steele at the Carnegie Geophysical Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, the explorer leader said: 'These frozen volcanic cores can also be found on Mars, and can be there is also life '.

In 2004, the exploration ships of the US Space Agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency demonstrated the presence of frozen water in the polar regions of Mars.Water is a necessary condition for the emergence of living organisms, and this new finding may reinforce the evidence that there may be life on the Red planet.

T.VY (According to Newscientist , Physorg, Space Daily )