The impeller made out of cast material in many cases may be called rotor, also. It is cheaper to cast the radial impeller right in the support it is fitted on, which is put in motion by the gearbox from an electric motor, combustion engine or by steam driven turbine.
Earth remains the only known planet to host life, due to a unique combination of factors. However, continued monitoring of alien worlds might one day change that, by finding other planets that share these attributes or by discovering other ways that life has found to blossom in the universe.
If life did once exist on Mars and left any evidence, with luck we'll eventually discover it. Io, Jupiter's moon, has extremely high levels of volcanic activity, which could have provided the heat to sustain life sometime in the past.