A new study speculates about whether there may be some places on Mars where the conditions are right to support life – even if it’s just microscopic plants that survive through photosynthesis. “Martian ice exposures are probably one of the most accessible places we should be looking” for life on the red planet,

Aditya Khuller, a Research Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spilled the cosmic tea in an interview with Space.com. He explained how Mars is a bit of a rebel—unlike Earth, it doesn’t have a protective ozone layer,