Brian Cory Dobbs

Some of it is carbon dioxide, but most of it is H2O.

There's water on most.

Now, most of it is in the form of ice, but that's still very important when we get into the microbial discussion because microbes, there are certain types of microbes that can live directly on ice.

So Mars is red now.

Mars used to be a blue planet.

So if it used to be a blue planet, is it completely unreasonable to think that it might have given rise to life?

Even mainstream academia now accepts this.

In 1986, Dr. John Brandenburg, plasma physicist, was the first to propose the Mars ocean hypothesis.

He was laughed out of the room.

But if you go on Wikipedia today, he's got the first citation for Mars Ocean Hypothesis.

So it's taken decades, but now everyone in the planetary science community accepts that Mars used to be a blue planet.

And the question is, why is it no longer blue?

If we take, and I'll take NASA's analysis on a number of different things in terms of, let's just say, when did it turn from blue to red?

When did it lose its water?

When did it lose its atmosphere?

And right now, I guess the best estimations are somewhere between three and three and a half billion years ago.

That's a very long time ago.

Mars was like Earth before Earth was like Earth.

Earth long ago, super volcanoes, inhospitable to life as we know it today.

It was an alien planet, essentially.