sure but everything we've "learned about the universe" from projects like these actually fucking sucks and is of no practical use to anyone hooray, today I discovered that Venus looks yellow
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The outside chance that we could discover a new kind of macromolecule that works similarly to Earth proteins but using a different "library" of monomers than our 20 amino acids would be a big deal So would discovering something similar-but-different to the "language" of DNA/RNA
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Insight into abiogenesis (how do you make life from non-life at the initial bootstrap stage), which we're arguably more likely to get on Mars than Earth, where life was so successful it completely consumed and destroyed any trace of its earliest origins That kind of thing
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