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Life on Mars could be found within two years but world is \u2018not prepared\u2019, Nasa\u2019s chief scientist says
Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-mars-life-discovery-space-exomars-rover-chief-scientist-jim-green-a9125076.html

Leading astronomer says discovery will open up \u2018whole new line of thinking\u2019

Nasa is close to finding life on Mars but the world is not ready for the \u201crevolutionary\u201d implications of the discovery, the space agency\u2019s chief scientist has said.

Dr Jim Green has warned that two rovers from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) could find evidence of life within months of arriving on Mars in March 2021.

The ExoMars Rover, which has been dubbed \u201cRosalind\u201d in memory of British chemist Rosalind Franklin, will search for extra-terrestrial life by drilling 6.5 feet down into Mars\u2019 core to take samples.

Those samples will then be crushed up and examined for organic matter in a mobile laboratory.

Dr Green compared the potential discovery to when the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus stated that the Earth revolves around the Sun in the 16th century.

\u201cIt will start a whole new line of thinking. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re prepared for the results,\u201d he told The Sunday Telegraph. \u201cI\u2019ve been worried about that because I think we\u2019re close to finding it and making some announcements.\u201d

Nasa\u2019s rover Mars 2020 will drill into rock formations on the planet before sending test-tubes of rock samples back to Earth \u2013 the first time material from Mars will have been brought onto this planet.

Dr Green added that the discovery of life on Mars will give scientists a new set of questions to explore.

\u201cWhat happens next is a whole new set of scientific questions. Is that life like us? How are we related?\u201d he said. \u201cCan life move from planet-to-planet or do we have a spark and just the right environment and that spark generates life \u2013 like us or do not like us \u2013 based on the chemical environment that it is in?\u201d


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