So we better start digging.
shows that rovers may have to dig roughly 6.6 feet or more under the surface of Mars to find signs of ancient life due to the effects of ionizing radiation on small molecules such as amino acids.
The issue is that these are obliterated by cosmic rays, meaning many remnants of ancient Martian life may now be long gone.Astrobiology
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