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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are preparing to search for life on Mars in the 2030s.
- A 2025 study in Astrobiology found amino acids in dead Escherichia coli could survive in Martian ice for up to 50 million years.
- These findings indicate ice-covered regions on Mars are key targets for searching traces of past life.
- Some NASA researchers say alien life may be extinct, but discovery would be monumental.
