The place is full of ice just under a thin layer of sand in many places, grab a chunk of ice and bring it back, fuck the rocks, if microbial life was there, it will be frozen in the ice or traces of it will be. I favor panspermia as a life origin theory for several reasons and imagine a liquid world capped in ice and heated by internal or gravitational tidal forces in an ocean of thousands of cubic kilometers. Now imagine a comet or rock smashing into it and scattering its contents into space, simple tough life forms could seed a galaxy over many millions of years and one landing in earth's primordial ocean inside a space rock would be enough. We might have an answer on Mars indicating one or the other, or life could have originated there and traveld her, or made a pit stop there on the way here. Life arose on earth very early according to the scant evidence we have and there is every indication it was already quite complex, even then.
On the way from being star dust to us, complex life came into the picture as soon as our rock cooled enough.
NASA rover discovery reveals there may have been life on Mars
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Caroline Smith, who works at the Natural History Museum, discusses a new discovery made by a NASA rover that may provide evidence of past life on Mars.