Mars has left many imaginations for humans: from ancient astrology that Mars represents unlucky, to centuries ago, humans were worried that Martian would invade the earth. Although humans have now confirmed that Mars is a barren land, there is one thing that cannot be denied: that is, humans still don’t know much about Mars - after all, so far, humans’ understanding of Mars has only stayed on the surface of Mars. And these understandings are only obtained through the data and photos sent back by the detector. Humans have far less knowledge of Mars than the moon. Because after all, humans have landed on the moon, but have never landed on Mars. Not to mention the fire was collected and returned to the earth.
However, for humans, if there is a chance in the future, it is still very important to "archaeology" on Mars.
1. Mars and Life
For humans, where does life originate? This issue has always been controversial. Some biologists have proposed a hypothesis: they believe that the source of life comes from the amino acid carried by the Taiping meteorite, and the birth of life requires a suitable nurturing environment. However, the reason why hypothesis is called a hypothesis is mainly due to its lack of physical evidence support.
So, in recent years, humans have been very interested in the situation of Mars and Europa . Because if you can in-depth understanding of Europa and study of Mars, it is likely to solve the problem of 's origin of life .
Scientists have two major hypotheses about Mars: First, Mars once had oceans, but later, due to a series of changes in Mars, the oceans disappeared. Assuming that Mars oceans do exist, this means that Mars may also give birth to life;
Second, Mars once produced microorganism . However, these microorganisms later died, which led to the failure of Martian organisms to continue to evolve.
For Europa: Scientists believe that Europa's environment should be enough to nurture primitive life. All hypotheses such as
need to be verified.
2, the significance of Mars archaeology
In fact, humans do want to verify the history of Mars and the current situation of Europa.
For humans, if aquatic products can be found on Europa, then humans can make a judgment based on the genetic conditions of aquatic products on Europa and the genetic conditions of the earth's organisms. Because assuming that Europa's organisms have a connection with the genes of the earth's organisms, it can be confirmed that life originated from space meteorites. On the contrary, if there is no origin, it can be denied that life originated from meteorites in space.
If humans can camp on Mars and mine and survey the surface of Mars, then through archaeology of Mars, we can further determine whether the two previous conjectures about Mars are correct - that is, whether Mars has oceans, and even whether there have been creatures on Mars? Even under the surface of Mars, microorganisms still exist in contemporary times?
Moreover, if the traces left by Martian life can be found under the surface of Martian surface, it can at least prove that life is indeed a very ordinary phenomenon in the universe, but whether life can evolve for a long time depends on luck.
In addition, for Mars archaeology, we can also determine whether Mars has resources needed for human development, and provide important references for the next step of human development.
In short, as Mars is archaeologically one day in the future, the mystery that many humans are troubled by them will be solved.
3. Human entanglement
In fact, whether the existence of life is a common phenomenon in the universe is a very entangled thing for humans. Because on the one hand, human beings hope to find extraterrestrial life to get rid of loneliness. But on the other hand, if life is really common, then in other galaxies, there are likely to be civilizations with higher levels of civilization than humans. If these civilizations have the ability to reach the earth one day in the future, then it may not be a good thing for humans.
After all, one of the purposes of human beings exploring the universe is to develop the universe.If the earth is discovered by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, will the earth become the target of development of extraterrestrial civilizations?
