The Viking landers may have missed potential signs of life when they explored Mars in 1976, an international research team asserts.
NASA’s two unmanned Viking craft landed on Mars, took pictures, and conducted a variety of experiments. While some of the data suggested biological activity in the Red Planet’s soil, the chemical analyses didn’t turn up organic compounds, expected to be present if there were life there.
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