Do you think they will find evidence of an ancient civilisation on mars?

Question

if mars is 4.5 billion years old, same as that of earth, wdo you think there is a chance they may find evidence of a past civilisation on mars??

Answer 1

Who knows, the answer is maybe because when Mars was much warmer and wetter there is a remote chance life could have formed there but i doubt that because we humans have only been on this planet for maybe 3 1/2 million years in the form if hominid primates, so once again i stress the word maybe, the highest form of life that could have evolved on Mars under absolute perfect conditions would be a small amphibious lizard or insect perhaps, no intelligent civilization there.

Answer 2

There might be a very ancient, well-advanced and wise civilisation of... bacteria. I don't think anything bigger would survive there.

Answer 3

very very close to 0. the climate is so uninhabitable, it is very inlikely. you underestimate how severe it is. imagine living in something 10 times worse than the north pole.

make it a good day

Answer 4

I believe there is a small but finite chance that there is evidence of an ancient civilization on Mars. There WAS a period of warmish wetness there which MAY have been long enough for indigenous life to develop there. But no fossils have ever been found on Mars. Yet. It's possible they will be, one day.

It is more likely that there would be an abandoned alien outpost there. The Universe is over 12 billion years old, and the Solar System is over 4.5 billion years old. There has been life on Earth for 3.7 billion years, so that is a long time for an alien species to come along and take an interest in developments here.

But, space is vast, and space travel is difficult. Would anyone have gone to the trouble?

In all likelihood, there will be no evidence of any structures found on Mars, from any source.

But only time will tell for sure.... : )

Answer 5

It’s almost like you think civilisations grow out of nothing.  In order for there to have been civilisations, there would have been billions of other evidences of lifeforms.  

You are in fantasy land.

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And to Hellbent’s answer – on the scale of the evolution of life on Earth, Amphibians would rank as a recent and highly complex lifeform.  A frog is a vertibrate, has four limbs with the same number of joints as you, and 5 digits on hands and toes, has heart, lungs, two eyes, two nostrils, has s*x, etc etc.  

Amphibians came about 400 million years ago, but that is recent compared with the 3 billion + years of the evolution of life.

Answer 6

about the only anciant civillisation on mars would be tiny bacteria, that we probably introduced by sending probes and things there and into space.

Answer 7

Never mind Mars, we need to find an intelligent civilisation on Earth first.

Answer 8

No, I very much doubt that there ever has been life on Mars

Answer 9

  I don't think we will even find water on mars.

Answer 10

I'll stick my neck out and say why not.

As we know the earth and the planets came from the sun and over the billions of years are now in the positions they are now. So surely at one point in its life Mars must have been in the position that the earth is in. So why couldn't there have been life on all of the other planets. They didn't just appear in the place they are now.  This would go some way in explaining all the ancient markings and symbols in the desert in mexico, perhaps we were visited by the remaning civilisation before mars became inhospitible ???? Who knows.

Thats my theory anyway, Just try and prove it wrong.

Answer 11

Only two people so far have given decent, informed answers. The answer is a resounding "no". Mars has never had the conditions for supporting advanced, multicellular life as we see on Earth. Yes it was "warm and wet" billions of years ago, but if we look at Earth it took about 3 billion years just for multicellular life to evolve. That means for the vast majority of time on Earth, there was nothing but single celled microbes for life. Mars' hospitable climate could not have lasted more than a billion years, which leaves around 3.5 billion years of Mars being the frigid desert as we now find it.

To even contemplate the idea of "civilisations" on Mars is to singularly misunderstand just how difficult it is for creatures like us to evolve. For that, you need a planet like Earth. Sure, aliens from other star systems could have colonised Mars, but why would they want to do that when the Earth is so much more hospitable? It's preposterous.