The Oxygen Mystery On Mars: Alien Life?

From what it means, to what could have caused it, join as we explore the question of the Recent Mars discovery by Nasa are being caused by Alien Life!
Alright, so what exactly is going on with Mars this go around? I mean, we're trying to get to the planet in terms of human ships within this new decade, so what could it possibly offer now that we haven't found out about already? Well...more than you might realize. I mean, we've already found water and ice on Mars, and then we've found that it may have had all sorts of life in the past and a much greener composition before it had a hole in its atmosphere, so at this point, anything might have been possible. But what is stunning people at NASA and beyond right now is that there is oxygen on the planet...and we're not sure how it got there, or how it's being there in such amounts.
Now, obviously, the first question here is, "was there always oxygen on Mars?" And the answer is yes, the problem is the amount of Oxygen that it had. In fact, the Curiosity Rover that went to Mars spent three of its years (which is about 6 Earth years) studying the atmosphere of Mars by literally "inhaling" the gases that were around in the "air", and the results that it spit out confirmed the makeup of the Martian atmosphere at the surface: 95% by volume of carbon dioxide (CO2), 2.6% molecular nitrogen (N2), 1.9% argon (Ar), 0.16% molecular oxygen (O2), and 0.06% carbon monoxide (CO). This is of course a stark difference from Earth itself where Carbon Dioxide is much lower, Oxygen is much higher, and there are other balances of the other gasses. So as you can see, Oxygen has always been on Mars, but that's not the problem NASA scientists are having. The problem lies in its "behavior".
"Wait, a gas has a behavior?" you might be wondering as you hear this? Well yeah! It has a behavior, just not a human one. Gasses on Earth, and in the atmospheres of other planets have a "behavior" in regards to its rising and falling levels. Usually, this is based on what goes on in the atmosphere and on the planet in terms of seasons. And Mars is no different, which is why the scans from the Curiosity Rover are so compelling, and so confusing.
It revealed how the molecules in the Martian air mix and circulate with the changes in air pressure throughout the year. These changes are caused when CO2 gas freezes over the poles in the winter, thereby lowering the air pressure across the planet following redistribution of air to maintain pressure equilibrium. When CO2 evaporates in the spring and summer and mixes across Mars, it raises the air pressure.
Within this environment, scientists found that nitrogen and argon follow a predictable seasonal pattern, waxing and waning in concentration in Gale Crater throughout the year relative to how much CO2 is in the air. They expected oxygen to do the same. But it didn’t. Instead, the amount of the gas in the air rose throughout spring and summer by as much as 30%, and then dropped back to levels predicted by known chemistry in fall. This pattern repeated each spring, though the amount of oxygen added to the atmosphere varied, implying that something was producing it and then taking it away.
Needless to say...when scientists first realized this pattern, they were a bit...confused.
“We’re struggling to explain this,” said Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland who led this research. “The fact that the oxygen behavior isn’t perfectly repeatable every season makes us think that it’s not an issue that has to do with atmospheric dynamics. It has to be some chemical source and sink that we can’t yet account for.”
Believe it or not, this isn't the only gas that's on Mars that is causing scientists to shake their heads at the randomness of its rising and falling levels. The other one is Methane, which in the Gale Crater sometimes rises in levels of up to 60% in the Summer...but then the rest of the years falls to such levels that it's barely readable by scanners.
Since there is two different gasses on Mars causing a mystery in terms of levels and such, some scientists are wondering if there is a connection:
“We’re beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year,” said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “I think there’s something to it. I just don’t have the answers yet. Nobody does.”
Is there a connection between these two? It's possible, and if it's not explainable by science as we know it right now, then that means there's a factor in the equation that we just don't know about yet. And a lot of people are wondering if that factor...is life.
Now don't get me wrong here, I'm not talking about Martians, or even animal life that is underneath the ground.
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