NASA chief scientist: We can find life on Mars in the next 2 years!

Jim Green, NASA's chief scientific officer, said they were nearing the point of discovering life on Mars, but he feared that the world was not ready for such a 'revolutionary' statement. .

He said that two probing robots, one from NASA and one from the European Space Agency ESA, would find traces of life just a few months after they landed on Mars - in March 2021.

The next mission towards Mars will be the most advanced scientific test at the moment, but NASA is worried that the experiment will . be successful.'It will be revolutionary,' said Jim Green. ' It will launch a whole new stream of thinking. I don't think we're willing to face it . '

Jim Green - chief scientific officer of NASA.

NASA's probe will be in the air next summer, in parallel with ESA's ExoMars, which will be the first to collect specimens and bring them back to Earth. Scientists believe that the Red Planet's surface has a large amount of radiation, so if life existed, it would be deep underground.

If they discovered the biological traces of life in Mars, the evidence would make the entire universe biology industry and all related industries wobble. ' The next thing that will happen is that it will open up a series of other scientific questions. Is that life like us? Do we have a connection? ', Mr. Green hypothesized.

' We have never drilled so deeply. And when the environment becomes too extreme, life finds its way deep into the rock . '

The Earth is the largest case study for the hypothesis that 'life is deep in the earth' , because when drilling deeper into the ground, researchers find more life than it does on the surface. Where there is water, there can be life and if there is water below Mars' surface, there is a high chance that life will exist.

The research results will come in just a few months, counting from the time the probe begins drilling.

ExoMars.

The two probes going to Mars are two machines with a common goal: to find life on the dead planet. They will observe which sites were able to support life, and will dig deep into the ground in that area in search of truth.

But that's not the only purpose, the two probes will also test Mars's ability to generate oxygen and observe the weather on the Red Planet, the first steps to prepare for 'cohabitation' on Mars.

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