NASA’s Viking Mission May Have Destroyed Martian Life with Water Experiments

NASA’s Viking Mission May Have Destroyed Martian Life with Water Experiments

ByNews Polite

In 1975, NASA’s Viking programme made history when its twin landers became the first American spacecraft to successfully reach the surface of Mars. These landers conducted pioneering experiments, collecting and analysing Martian soil samples for over six years in a quest to determine whether microbial life existed on the Red…