NASA’s Viking probes were colossally disappointing for those looking for life on Mars – not only were there no signs of life, we didn’t even find its essential building blocks. Or maybe we just didn’t ...
LOS ANGELES - Gilbert V. Levin, principal investigator on NASA Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, says he’s convinced life was discovered on the red planet nearly four decades ago. Levin recently ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorized in a paper released ...
Click to open image viewer. The Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) experiment was carried aboard each of the Viking spacecraft landers that reached the red planet in 1976. It was intended to ...
A dark patch in Mars’ Utopia Planitia, first spotted by NASA’s Viking probes in 1976, has expanded significantly over the past 50 years, shifting at least 200 miles south. New images from ESA’s Mars ...
NASA’s Viking 2 lander probably discovered quakes on Mars almost 50 years ago, but this has only just been confirmed thanks to data from the more recent InSight probe. In 1975, NASA launched two ...