We may all be Martians, according to scientists who recently discovered more evidence that life on Earth may have started on Mars. "In addition, recent studies show that these conditions, suitable for the origin of life, may still exist on Mars," Professor Steven Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in the USA, said in at the annual Goldschmidt conference. Benner explained that an oxidized mineral form of molybdenum, an element that may have been crucial to the origin of life, could only have been available on the surface of Mars and not on Earth. "It's only when molybdenum becomes highly oxidized that it is able to influence how early life formed," Benner said.
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