Tough microbes could survive on Mars

Image credit: NASA Astrobiology Scientists have found a microbe called Methanosarcina barkeri that lives in water sediment where oxygen is scarce, breathes out methane and could potentially survive in an environment as inhospitable as the surface of Mars. "Biologists have found microbes that live in the hottest, coldest, driest and most unpleasant places on Earth. Many of these bugs don't adapt well to new surroundings, but one microbe is remarkable for withstanding a wide range of conditions." View: Full Article | Source: Live Science Not only them, in the 70s a friend of mine made experiment... [More]

i hope when we go to mars we leave some of these microbes there and possibly some tough plants/and tough basic animals

I remember when they first discovered methane on Mars in 2003 but wearn't quite certain wehther it was geological or biological as to the cause I am happy to see the progress that they have discovered it to be from life. It just goes to show you that where ever life has a chance it will most certainly prevail. Perhaps Drakes equation needs to be adjusted and a new calculation added stating the presumption that life will try to rise throughout the universe and dependent on environment is the outcome of evolution. Life on Mars-but not as we know it NASA Mars methane Making sense of methane

If they bring the microbes there, the microbes may evolve to become Martians.

we need such organisms to terraform mars over dozens or hundreds of years for colonization.