2021.09.04

Alien Underground

Subsurface radiation could have powered Martian microbes

A crater in Mars’s southern highlands. Source: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin and G. Neukum (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

A crater in Mars’s southern highlands. Source: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin and G. Neukum (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

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