What life on Mars would probably look like – and it’s not little green men
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As far as we know, ours is the only planet capable of supporting life, and it seems to have arisen in the form of something like today’s single-celled prokaryotic organisms. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Before the 1960s, the conditions on the solar system’s most promising satellites would have seemed impossible for life. He approached Marshall and asked if he would like to work alongside “that crackpot Warren who’s trying to turn gastritis into an infectious disease”. open image in gallery An illustration of a Starship rocket that SpaceX hopes to send to Mars in 2026 In 2005, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastric diseases, a discovery that revolutionised the field of gastroenterology.
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