Are we alone in the universe? While this is still an open question, a large proportion of astronomers today accept the consensus that it's quite impossible for any other form of life to exist in the Cosmos apart from us.
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Human probes on Mars
To answer this question, NASA, the European Space Agency and other institutions and private companies have set their sights on Mars. Could the red planet be home to extraterrestrial life? Not aliens, but water or any other living organism would already be proof that Earth is not the only place suitable for life.
With this in mind, we've sent out various probes, rovers and other astromobiles to find the beginnings of an answer. A choice of space program that could be taken up by a (potential) extraterrestrial civilization, according to the Pentagon!
What if aliens sent us probes?
Admittedly, such an event would be highly unlikely, but if that's the strategy we humans have adopted, why not another form of life too? Indeed, in a document made public in the second week of March 2023, the US Department of Defense stated that if extraterrestrials were to visit us, they would surely do so via probes.
In a draft document published last week, Pentagon officials assert that extraterrestrials could visit our solar system and drop small probes, similar to NASA's missions to study other planets.
Appearance of a mother ship
This could involve 'an artificial interstellar object like a mothership that would release numerous small probes as it passed close to Earth, an operational construct not dissimilar to NASA missions', the report reads.
Adding:
With the right design, these tiny probes could reach Earth or other planets in the solar system for exploration
(...) astronomers would not be able to notice the mini-probes being sent because they did not reflect enough sunlight and would therefore be invisible to the eyes of telescopes
This article has been translated from Gentside France
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