Nasa's Viking landers accidentally killed life on Mars, says astrobiologist
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also ...
Did NASA’s Viking ‘kill life’ on Mars? Expert says, ‘It was so much like Earth…’
Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA’s Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods ...
Did NASA’s Viking Lander kill traces of life on the red planet (Mars)
In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted ...
Was Life On Mars Destroyed Because Of NASA Mission In 1976? | Explainer
Schulze-Makuch suggests focusing on hygroscopic salts like Mars's sodium chloride, which absorbs moisture and could support ...
A NASA lander may have killed life on Mars, scientist claims — and colleagues took his theory ‘surprisingly well’
Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one scientist has suggested.
NASA's Viking 1 lander may have killed life on Mars, claims scientist
A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA ...
NASA Killed Life On Mars? Astrobiologist Says Landers May Have Made A Mistake
NASA's earliest landers on Mars may have accidentally killed life there, says an astrobiologist. According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Germany's Technische Universität Berlin, the method of finding ...
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Did we kill life on Mars before discovering it?
The 1976 Viking landers were the first U.S. missions to land on Mars, conducting the only experiments dedicated to detecting ...
Whoops, NASA might have killed life on Mars
For decades, scientists have posited that to find life on Mars they first need to find water. And in the absence of water, ...
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Scientist claims NASA may have accidentally killed all life on Mars
A scientist has said NASA may have accidentally killed life on Mars during a research mission to find it. For decades, ...
Against All Odds: Living Microbes Discovered in the Most Unlikely Place on Earth
A novel technique separates living (iDNA) and dead (eDNA) microbial DNA, enabling precise analysis of microbial life in the Atacama Desert. This method reveals active microbes and offers new insights ...
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Could Mars Have Hosted Life? How NASA’s Viking Missions May Have Missed It
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University Berlin suggests that life may have been present in Martian ...