Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods.

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Did NASA’s Viking ‘kill life’ on Mars? Expert says, ‘It was so much like Earth…’

Oops ? Life on Mars may have been discovered – before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission almost 50 years ago, a scientist has suggested. In 1975, just six years after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, two landing craft, Viking 1 and 2, were sent to the surface of the Red Planet. The goal was to experiment to find out if its soil could produce something living. However, astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch fears that the machines could…

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The experiments of the Viking space probes did not take into account the conditions prevailing on an alien planet.

A Viking-űrszondák kísérletei nem vették figyelembe az idegen bolygón uralkodó viszonyokat.

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We could have made a huge mistake on Mars

A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA's Viking 1 mission, which saw two spacecraft land on Mars and conduct groundbreaking experiments to search for signs of life

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NASA's Viking 1 lander may have killed life on Mars, claims scientist

An American astrobiologist believes that the experiments used by NASA to discover whether there is life on Mars have had an effect contrary to expectations. Thus, Dirk Schulze-Makuch speculates that the methods could be destructive.

Un astobiolog american este de părere că experimentele folosite de NASA pentru a descoperi dacă se află viață pe Marte au avut un efect contrar așteptărilor. Astfel, Dirk Schulze-Makuch speculează că metodele ar putea fi distructive.

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NASA may have accidentally destroyed evidence of life on Mars. The mistakes made by the space agency

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

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Did NASA's Viking landers accidentally kill life on Mars? Why one scientist thinks so

In all our explorations of  Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have conclusively found life.But, decades ago in the 1970s, when the Viking landers became the first US mission to safely land on and explore the red planet, we may have been close.
			   One researcher raises the possibility that life existed in a sample of Martian soil. And then, in our quest to sniff it, we snuffed it out. J…

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NASA May Have Inadvertently Killed Life on Mars, Scientist Says

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have conclusively found life.
But, decades ago in the 1970s, when the Viking landers became the first US mission to safely land on and explore the red planet, we may have been…

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NASA could have killed any life that it picked up when it collected soil samples and mixed it with water in an experiment to test for life. Continue reading at TweakTown >

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NASA could have already killed life on Mars during its experiment

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 saw two spacecraft land on the Red Planet's surface and conduct an experiment involving mixing water and nutrients with collected soil samples. The assumption at the time was that life on Mars would behave the same way as it does on Earth, relying on…

NASA's Viking Mission May Have Unintentionally Destroyed Martian Life

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