Life on Mars Quiz

What did U.S. astronomer Percival Lowell claim to have found on Mars in the late 1800s?

• Martian cities

• Crop fields

• Intelligent life

• Natural canals

What did astronomers in the 1960s find when they took pictures of Mars?

• Signs of canals

• Intelligent life forms

• Crop fields

• No signs of canals

What type of life-forms do scientists wonder whether Mars ever hosted?

• Animals

• Microbes

• Intelligent beings

• Plants

What are some of the key building blocks for life found on Mars's surface?

• Nitrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon

• Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, argon

• Helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen

• Nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon

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What have NASA scientists been sending to explore the surface of Mars since 1997?

• Astronauts

• Satellites

• Rockets

• Rovers

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What have spacecrafts sent to orbit Mars helped to uncover?

• Geological formations

• Volcanic eruptions

• Lava flows

• Layers of ice

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What has amplified NASA scientists' interest in sending humans to further explore Mars?

• Discovery of sand

• Discovery of rocks

• Discovery of ice

• Discovery of air

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What could water on Mars help humans do according to NASA scientists?

• Survive for an extended stay

• None of the above

• Survive for a short visit

• Both A and B

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