Viking Experiment May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks on Mars After All
3 Sep 2010, 17:37 UTC
A new look at data from the Mars Phoenix mission suggests that Viking landers may have found the building blocks of life on the Red Planet after all way back in 1976. The surprise discovery of perchlorates by Phoenix could means the way the Viking experiment was set up actually would have destroyed any carbon-based [...]
View of Mars from the Viking lander in 1976. Credit: NASAA new look at data from the Mars Phoenix mission suggests that Viking landers may have found the building blocks of life on the Red Planet after all way back in 1976. The surprise discovery of perchlorates by Phoenix could means the way the Viking experiment was set up actually would have destroyed any carbon-based chemical building blocks of life – what the experiment set about to try and find. (...)Read the rest of Viking Experiment May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks on Mars After All (644 words)© nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment |
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