Space/Science — HabitableZone

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Sure...

If there were a constant supply of glucose in the subsurface.

(Or any other energy-rich metabolite)

AND an oxidising environment.

Neither of these is likely. What is far more likely is that chemical-based life could have originated in the crust of Mars, as it did on Earth. Traces of this life may still be present deep below the frozen surface of Mars.

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