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Scientists found life on Mars back in the 70s
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 6:01pm BST 23/08/2007
The soil on Mars may indeed be teeming with microbes, according to a
new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years ago.
Scientists found life on Mars back in the 70s
The search for life on Mars appeared to hit a dead end in 1976 when
Viking landers touched down on the red planet and failed to detect
biological activity.
There was another flurry of excitement a decade later, when Nasa
thought it had found evidence of life in a Mars meteorite but doubts
have since been cast on that finding.
Today, Joop Houtkooper from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen,
Germany, will claim the Viking spacecraft may in fact have encountered
signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the
subfreezing, arid Martian surface.
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