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My thoughts as well. I honestly think the robots are all going to come up empty on proof of life. Precursors, tell-tale signs, and markers pointing to life they have already been found. But life itself? Actual proof? Like "Here's a microbe!" My bet is it's there, but won't be found until a manned mission, and that once people are there, they find it within days. They can do more labratory science in an hour on the surface than Curiosity and all other past rover programs can do combined. The only unmanned program I think that could do it, would be sample-return mission... which only because it could be analyzed by scientists here on Earth.Ultimately, it might come down to human exploration to really determine if life is there.