Electrical Dust Storms Could Make Life on Mars Impossible!!!

On 8/1/06, Alex Michael Bonnici wrote:
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> New research is suggesting that planet-wide dust storms on Mars could create a snow of corrosive chemicals toxic to life. These Martian storms generate a significant amount of static electricity, and could be capable of splitting carbon dioxide and water molecules apart. The elements could then reform into hydrogen peroxide molecules, and fall to the ground as a snow that would destroy organic molecules associated with life. This toxic chemical might be concentrated in the top layers of Martian soil, preventing life from surviving.
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I think it has been known for a long time that Mars is "bleached" with
hydrogen peroxide - the article just suggests the mechanism that would
be responsible for that. Anyhow, at most that makes life impossible in
the *soil* of Mars. But on Earth we can find bacteria surviving on
chemosynthesis many kilometers deep in the crust, and bacteria living
in the same deep places on Mars wouldn't be affected by H2O2 . As
usual, the title of this article is a bit overstated.