In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted ...
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also ...
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...
A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA ...
The seasonal variations of methane in the Martian atmosphere is an intriguing clue that there might be life hiding under the ...
NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...
Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods ...
Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago, a possibility that has long intrigued scientists. Now, new evidence suggests ...
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TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.