ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe backed NASA ’s plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s and Elon Musk ’s bid to colonise the planet .

The Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology astrobiologist thinks alien life “unquestionably” existed on the Red Planet.

And he’s even suggested explorers could unearth fossils pointing to alien life, possibly more intelligent than us.

Prof Wickramasinghe told The Sun: “I think it is entirely plausible that Mars, sometime in the past, was a green planet full of life.

“Then something happened that made it a virtually dead planet or nearly a dead planet.

“This could have happened after impact. An episode of comet asteroid impacts co

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