a desert planet cold and hostile to life. this meteorite awoke a new hope in one thousand nine hundred six to this day experts are discussing whether this clump from mars could contain tiny microfossils it is possible. huge quantities of water used to flow on mars water is the most important prerequisite for life about four billion years ago there were rivers and lakes on what is now a dr planet. american research rovers have already found several pieces of evidence for that. back on earth astrobiologists discovered like funky and microbes that can survive in extreme regions and it turns out they could also survive on mars that was proven on the international space station that they were exposed to deadly space packed in these boxes and they survived the