We have never been closer to finding out about interplanetary biodiversity than at the present date. With the planet Mars being part of an important, ongoing science project there is a lot we are learning about our closest planet. Thanks to data being collected over the last few years by the twin Mars rovers we know a lot more about the planet conditions today than we did a decade ago.

The collected information by the Mars rovers has been studied by scientists across the globe and many have come to the conclusion that there may be life on Mars. Not the little green men kinds that we see in science fiction comics or movies, but some kind of water based primeval life is a definite possibility.

Mars may have also supported terrestrial life of extremophiles or creatures which could adapt to extreme ranges of temperature, low level of oxygen and next to no supply of water. Life on Mars or any other planet in the galaxy would definitely not have followed the same rules as the ones it followed on Earth.

So we should be prepared to find some form of life that we may recognize exactly as being alive. Think of the intelligent rock crystals in Star Trek? Still it would be quite a thrill to actually find life on Mars. It would be a science project whose mission was well achieved.