Discovery of Life in Solid Rocks, on Seabed Inspires New Search for Martian Life - A Review

Authors

  • Ritya Mary Jibu1 , R. V. Geetha2 , Lakshmi.T3

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12378

Keywords:

Microorganisms, seabed, volcanic rocks, environment

Abstract

Life on Mars has been considered a possibility only in the wildest of wild dreams and that too only among
scientists. It was considered a far from happening possibility as it wasn’t based on the environment of
Earth but of a different planet as a whole. Newly found microorganisms could help in finding the proof of
life on the planet Mars. If successful, it could help in various ways for our planet, Earth. Researchers have
found billions of bacteria live in tiny cracks in volcanic rocks below the ocean floor, more than nine miles
below the ocean surface and a further 300 feet below the ocean floor. And they think similar tiny, clay-filled
cracks in rocks on or below Mars’ surface could be a life containing hub. To find a correlation between
the environment on the surface of Mars and that of which is beneath the seabed. A thorough literature
search was performed using the database like PubMed, Google scholar, BioRxiv, MESH, Google Cochrane
database using the keywords ‘Martian surface’ and ’rocks beneath seabed’ with no date and year restrictions.
The language is restricted to English. 16 articles with similar data have been found which were analyzed
and have been included in this study. The recent articles discussed in this study help us in gaining further
knowledge about the ‘relation between Mars and Earth’ and how it affects life on earth. We could come to a
result that there are slight correlations between the environments of both the planets. This review would also
help us be enlightened about how far we humans have come to realize the correlation between life on earth
and that of the possibility of Mars.

Author Biography

  • Ritya Mary Jibu1 , R. V. Geetha2 , Lakshmi.T3

    1Research Associate, 2Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha
    Institute of Medical & Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India, 3Associate Professor, Department
    of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University, Chennai, India

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Published

2020-10-29

How to Cite

Discovery of Life in Solid Rocks, on Seabed Inspires New Search for Martian Life - A Review. (2020). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 14(4), 4701-4705. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12378