As per the reports from NASA, life on Mars is possible as right nitrogen that is required for the possibility of life is found from the Mars Rover Curiosity.

The more we are exploring, the more is interesting for the Red Planet, Mars. It becomes as a potential haven for primitive life in the ancient past, present (as hoped).

Mars Curiosity Rover has found evidence of nitrates and other compounds that supports the growth of life.

As per the logic of chemistry and biology, nitrogen alone is not enough to make a life live but it must be fixed. “Fixed” – two tightly fused nitrogen atoms that make a molecule of gas must be separated from each other. With the only, life can be made possible.

Scientists previously knew that Mars had nitrogen gas in its atmosphere. But the gas that is present is not fixed here.

Without that fixing, most organisms can’t access the element. Due to this DNA and RNA cannot be formed.

Till now it is not known, but as per the reports from the National Academy of Sciences, researchers say that Mars does indeed have fixed nitrogen in it which causes a life on it.

They said that Nitric oxide was found it is formed from heated nitrates. This adds weight to the notion that Mars have harboured life, back when it was home to a deep and vast ocean.

Jennifer Stern, a planetary geochemist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center said, “People want to follow the carbon, but in many ways nitrogen is just as important a nutrient for life. Life runs on nitrogen as much as it runs on carbon”.

Now there is no life but probably the nitrates came from ancient living organisms. It is hoping that in future, creatures that will be formed will fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.

It is not clearly found that the nitrogen is fixed recently or sometime in the past. But research process is going on to find it at any cost. Irrespective of nitrates whether new or old, they came from non-biological processes.

On Mars, nitrogen might have come from asteroid impacts, whereas on Earth, nitrogen can be “fixed” by lightning strikes.

Stern said, “Scientists have long thought that nitrates would be produced on Mars from the energy released in meteorite impacts, and the amounts we found agree well with estimates from this process”.

He also added, “Right now, our experiment is not targeted to get us a nitrate signal big enough to get, for example, any nitrogen isotope data”.