Evidence of life on Mars was torched to ash during NASA’s first touchdown mission on the Red Planet more than 40 years ago, scientists claim.
The space agency’s Viking Landers, the first craft to land on the Martian surface, may have accidentally found and obliterated the raw materials for life using their gas instruments, according to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
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