The evidence came from photographs snapped by the NASA bot of the dry, dusty Martian surface marked by a series of hexagonal shapes that indicate mud covered the surface before drying and cracking.

The cracks themselves are mere centimetres deep, which the boffins said suggests short wet-dry cycles “were maintained at least episodically in the long term,” which would be yet another favorable condition for the past emergence of life on Mars.

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    The survivors of Mars would have been a small number of billionaires and their hangers on. Martian Elon Musk couldn’t resist the temptation to be treated like a god.