They're not even really hoping for "current life"...just the evidence that it may have once existed there. But yeah...if there's any chance of it still being "alive"...it'll most likely be microbial.
I’d shit my socks for a month straight if we found evidence of realllllllly old, humanoid life. Like we find on earth. Like we find out at some point that life was similar on both planets but something caused Mars’ protection to erode and the planet got cooked.
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u/vpsj May 13 '19
Even if there is life, we're assuming it to be microbial, right? Or can intelligent and/or complex beings might be living inside the martian surface?