A question David Bowie asked as did NASA.
It, however, now seems that not only did NASA look for the wrong kind of life - assuming water to be the main liquid constituent as on Earth - but they may also very well have destroyed any Martian life they encountered with their un-manned probes in the Seventies.
By first watering, then baking, soil samples it is possible that hydrogen peroxide based life - which is now a strong working hypothesis - would have drowned or fried!
Imagine then the last living molecules of Martian life, struggling in an increasingly hostile environment to survive, clinging to existence when suddenly - ZAP! Death by NASA probe. End of life on Mars!
One shouldn't laugh, but it's terribly tempting.
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