Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
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Fifty years after the first mission of space exploration on the red planet, scientists still do not know whether living organisms are ever populated. Despite the failure of its biological experiments, the Viking programme, however, made it possible to obtain a great deal of information about the geography of Mars, its climate, its atmosphere, its soil."Many years ago, it was said, a famous newspaper director sent a telegram to a renowned astrono…
Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander found strong "life affirmation" results in a Martian soil sample. Robert Jastrow, then director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, "Short of seeing something wiggling on the end of a pin, the case for life on Mars is now as complete as the Viking experiments could make it." — Read the rest The post Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all appeared first on Boing Boing.
The Search for Life and Biosignatures on Mars: A Mars System Science Approach (Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, Lithosphere, Geologic History)
[Astrobiology (Journal)] The most important quest in Mars exploration is the search for biosignatures. We adopt a Mars System Science approach, calling on information from the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, […] The post The Search for Life and Biosignatures on Mars: A Mars System Science Approach (Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, Lithosphere, Geologic History) appeared first on Astrobiology.
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