With all of this plate tectonic talk and the discoveries these fine scientist have made give hope into believing that the replenishing of nutrient organisms and carbon dioxide can exist! The atmosphere on Mars contains 95% carbon dioxide making it impossible for humans to breathe and any living thing would freeze from the temperature drop. What does make this planet a candidate is the soil on Mars because it contains nutrients plants need to survive and grow. (Candanosa, 2017)

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The photo above shows the surface of Mars and the possibility of this planet being at its primitive stage of plate tectonics meaning we can get an idea of what earth may have looked like during its most early stages of development. It seems Mars once had active tectonic plates spreading away from volcanic rifts. There is talk of this possibly being plate tectonics? It is still in the air but research is looking into the new discoveries of Mars evidence seeing active plate tectonics. In 1997 the first detection of a magnetic field embedded in Mars crust at random. They found them to be magma near the surface that were hardened, earlier in the history of the planet, locking in pieces of magnetic field that existed at the time. What this meant was, although the interior of Mars has cooled and produces no magnetic field today, it at some point had enough heat to churn the planets molten iron core into a magnetic dynamo (Kerr, 1999). The pattern was enough to bring to scientists attention and study more into this but it was not enough to match Earth's yet. The symmetrical pattern of the stripes has not been seen as of yet but there are research studies out there finding that answer out today.

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