4,000 Years Ago, Hydrogen-sucking Organisms Lived On Mars

According to a scientific study, Mars once had microbes that later disappeared because they absorbed hydrogen, which resulted in the planet's temperature dropping to fatal levels.

This was reported by the French newspaper “The Guardian”, quoting French scientists, and the full study of the experts was published in the scientific astronomical journal “Nature Astronomy”, according to what was reported by “Russia Today”, says a local Arabic daily.

The researchers studied the state of the Martian crust and assumed that 4 billion years ago, microbes that absorb hydrogen and produce methane lived on the Red Planet. And it only needed a few centimeters of rock to protect itself from the strong radiation.

“Similar microorganisms could have inhabited any area not covered by ice on Mars,” said Boris Souteri, one of the study’s authors.

But the absorption of hydrogen from the atmosphere of Mars, according to scientists, led to a decrease in the temperature on the planet by 200 degrees Celsius, which led to the death of all living things living near the surface.

Researchers from the SETI Institute did not exclude earlier the possibility of water on Mars in the beginning as its atmosphere was primarily hydrogen-based.

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