Life on Mars by 2035

Arsia Mons is the third tallest volcano on Mars and one of the largest mountains in the solar system.Even in the frigid conditions of Mars, that much ice-covered water would have remained liquid for a substantial period of time. Scanlon's back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the lakes could have persisted or hundreds or even a few thousand years. That may have been long enough for the lakes to becolonised by microbial life forms, if in fact such creatures ever inhabited Mars, researchers said.