22 February 2021, 4:37 am EST By NASA Releases List of Earth Organisms that can Survive on Mars Temporarily After Using the MARSBOx Back in 2019 ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website ) Humanity could unknowingly contaminate Mars as well as other worlds that are being explored in the future with certain microorganisms that come from our planet. Scientists over at NASA as well as the German Aerospace Center have previously launched a number of fungal as well as bacterial organisms straight into the stratosphere back in 2019 for the MARSBOx experiment. Can there be life on Mars? The MARSBOx experiment can be seen here as it covers how the stratosphere, which is the second major layer of the Earth's said atmosphere just a little above the ozone layer, has certain conditions that are quite closely similar to that of the Red Planet as well as a perfect place in order to send some samples to try and figure out if the said samples would survive on Mars.