and of extraterrestrial life bhaskar lhermitte take back your if you can just yet since mankind had been convinced for several centuries that there was life all over the universe and the solar system also people seriously thought that mars was the most likely to be favorable to life and you know it affected pre-sales issue took several setbacks in those experiments before people realized that this idea that there was life everywhere and run its course of us if you did a few no food is only recently that space missions are sheltered that we should have a different approach and our missions of the planet mars the commission of a captain at my office. the next exploratory missions to mars won't be looking for a life now but rather the trace of life in the past. this is the objective of the ambitious european exo mars mission with its most bottle of our tree. name and we know mars well enough now to look specifically for things that have been preserved in the right context in zones favorable to life. it's here ensuring that the gigantic 3 d. jigsaw puzzle of the european exo mars is being as