While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet's surface.

If life exists in Martian ice deposits its survival would be tenuous, but there’s a case for sending future rovers there to look.

We believe that dusty Martian ice exposures in the mid-latitudes represent the most easily accessible places to search for Martian life today.'

"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface," said researcher Aditya Khuller.

Microbial alien life could be found inside ice on the surface of Mars, according to a new study. It is almost certainly impossible to live on the surface of Mars. It is hit by high levels of ultraviolet radiation that would be harmful to anything that tried to survive there.

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface. Through computer modeling, the study’s authors have shown that the amount of sunlight that can shine through water ice would be enough for photosynthesis to occur in shallow pools of meltwater below the surface of that ice.

Everybody from NASA to David Bowie has wondered if there’s life on Mars – and now we might have a precise place to look for it. A new Caltech study has shown that photosynthetic microbes could thrive in a small habitable zone beneath the ice.