Mars Questions

Posted on March 24, 2004 by Gene

All the amazing new knowledge that is emerging from Mars is fascinating, but I think that they are asking the wrong questions.
What we are discovering is that Mars not only had water, but now it appears that it had salt water seas. NASA is continually pointing out that this means Mars may have once had life. That’s certainly interesting, but how does it affect our lives?
No, I think the questions they should be asking are these:
If Mars once was covered with water, what events made it all evaporate?
If there was life on Mars, what catastrophic event caused planet-wide extinction?
Don’t you think that those questions should hold more interest here on our water-covered, life-filled planet?