SARAI GUADALUPE FRANCO RENTERIA DER8SB116 ESSAY Throughout millions and millions of light years that the observable Universe extends, it is evident that there are beings similar (and many others perhaps not so similar) to us, but due to the inconceivable distances between each star, each galaxy, each local group, and so on... it is impossible for a civilization like ours to achieve the dream of becoming an interstellar species. However, now that the space age is in full swing with all the advances of private aerospace companies, we can be sure that this century is the century in which humanity finally becomes an interplanetary species. With this new opportunity that is presented to us, we will eventually be able to know the answer to whether life exists in our own solar system apart from that known on Earth. Much has already been said about the well-known red planet Mars, which is suspected to have had an atmosphere suitable for life and a surface rich in biological diversity, but which, due to atmospheric leakage as a result of a deficient protective magnetic field, lost all the conditions that made it a blue marble similar to Earth, thus ending the hypothetical Martian life that could have lived many millions of years ago, but is now buried. However, hope does not die, the remains of Martian bacterial life may have moved their habitat under the crust of the red planet, in any case we would have to dig to find them. We can become more fanciful than scientific… or better yet, we can do both! Noted science popularizer Carl Sagan once seriously hypothesized that life might even lurk beneath the stormy skies of Jupiter or some other gas giant in the outer solar system, and his theory clearly had scientific support. What I want to imply is that the desire to find these enigmatic extraterrestrial beings is in all of us, that we continue to do everything on our part to make people understand that science is something that human beings require now and always will. Do not forget; Intelligence is a privilege, not a gift, and it is used for the good of humanity, which is why we cannot do without it. We express our desire to know and decipher the secrets of the cosmos on a daily basis in very different ways: in books, in movies, in conferences, or even in normal conversation, but believe me, despite the fact that we are amazed by the fiction that surrounds these very interesting, reality as always, will be much more surprising
