Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
Harvard astrobiologist Steven Benner reanalyzed the raw data in his new book and says the original positive result was correct.
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander found strong "life affirmation" results in a Martian soil sample. Robert Jastrow, then director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, "Short of seeing something wiggling on the end of a pin, the case for life on Mars is now as complete as the Viking expe…
