[Music] want to see more cool videos on our channel we do so press this Bell and enable to send notifications number seven Mars is humans home planet meteorites discovered in Antarctica that come from Mars blasted off the red planet by cosmic impacts have structures that resemble ones made by microbes on earth although much research since then suggests chemical rather than biological explanations for these structures the debate continues these findings do raise the tantalizing possibility that life on Earth actually originated on Mars long ago carried here on meteorites I mean you me and your dog may
not be Martians by birth but we were all Martians by ancestry number six marine on Mars for 17 years a former US Marine has claimed he spent 17 years of his career on Mars the ex-naval infantrymen who uses the pseudonym Captain K says he was posted to the red planet to protect five human colonies from indigenous Martian life-forms he claims he then spent nearly three years serving in a secret space fleet run by a multinational organization called the Earth Defense Force which recruits military personnel from countries including the US Russia and China in testimony released
2xo news TV captain k said he was trained to fly three different types of space fighters and three bombers he added that training took place on a secret moon base called lunar operations command Saturn's moon Titan and in deep space captain K says he retired after a 20-year tour of duty describing a retirement ceremony on the moon that he claims was presided over by VIPs including ex Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld number five Mars is two-faced did you know Mars is two-faced and not because it lied about cheating on us with Mercury which we would totally
understand mercury is superhot no ours is two-faced because it's northern and southern hemispheres are vastly different in terms of terrain the southern hemisphere is craggy rough and full of craters and the northern hemisphere is as smooth as a baby's bottom it's one of the flattest places in the solar system and scientists are unable to explain why but theories put forward include the possibility that a huge ocean covered this area or that an object the size of Pluto must have hit Mars on its southernmost side at some point in history what we do know however is
that Mars should definitely show its northern hemisphere when it comes to picture day number four is there water today water has been detected on Mars in the form of ice at the poles and at mid latitudes but is there any flowing water on the red planet today scientists didn't believe so at first because Mars atmospheric pressure is thought to be far too low to allow water to remain as a liquid on the surface for any significant period of time but in September 2015 NASA confirmed that the rover Curiosity had discovered the presence of flowing water
on Martian slopes during the warmest months of the year this isn't water you could drink though as it's unbelievably salty it's actually a brine you could preserve some fish in there maybe but it's not something you'd want to go down on a hot day nevertheless flowing water on Mars was still a major discovery and scientists now believe that less salinated rivers or wells may also exist deep within the planet as groundwater number three Stonehenge on Mars the latest discovery seen using high-resolution images of the Martian surface a mysterious circle of stones have been spotted on
top of a raised mound on the planet dubbed Mars henge alien enthusiasts have been comparing it to the famous stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire England the strange cluster of stones has already triggered theories that it may have been built by aliens however X have in the past said such stone circles may form as a result of natural processes that also occur here on earth number two Mars methane mystery in 2005 the European Space Agency's Mars Express detected small yet significant quantities of methane in the atmosphere of Mars methane can be produced by volcanic activity
but much of the methane in our own atmosphere is produced by life and since neither cows nor human dads are prevalent on Mars we don't know where this gas is coming from methane can only exist for around 300 years in the Martian atmosphere so whatever is creating it has done so within the past few centuries or alternatively it is still producing it today in March 2016 a joint mission by the Europeans and Russians resulted in the launch of the ExoMars trace gas orbiter and in October their Lander named after Martian canal skipper Rolly will separate
and touchdown on the planet the hope is that the skipper Rolly Lander will help us understand where this methane is coming from which raises the distinct possibility that October 2016 could be the date we finally find out is their number one life on Mars the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars NASA's Viking 1 began a mystery that remains tantalizingly unsolved is there evidence of life on Mars Viking represented the first and so far only attempt to search for life on Mars and its findings are hotly debated today Viking had detected organic molecules such as
methyl chloride and dichloromethane however these compounds were dismissed as terrestrial contamination namely cleaning fluids used to prepare the spacecraft when it was still on earth the surface of Mars is very hostile to life as we know it in terms of cold radiation hyper aridity and other factors still there are numerous examples of life surviving in environments on earth such as the cold dry soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys and the hyper arid Atacama Desert in Chile there is life virtually wherever there is liquid water on earth and the possibility that there were once oceans on
Mars leads many to wonder if life ever evolved on Mars and if so whether it might be extant answering these questions might help shed light on how common life may or may not be in the rest of the universe thank you so much for watching and if you enjoy the video please let me know by clicking the like button do share write a comment and don't forget to subscribe so that you can catch up on my next video
