Wednesday, July 16, 2003
NASA may have found life on Mars
Two British astronomy writers say NASA found evidence of life on Mars in 1976 but dismissed the findings as impossible.
Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper say one of three Viking lander experiments on Mars obtained clear evidence of living microbes.
The men, in Sydney for the International Astronomical Union's 24th general assembly, told the Australian the experiment exposed samples of Martian soil to a solution of water and nutrients.
Henbest said if there was no life, then nothing would happen but if there were microbes, they would take in the solution and produce gas. He said the gas was tagged with a radioactive label that could be detected by the experiment's built-in Geiger detector.
Although gas was detected in one of the three experiments, the other two found no telltale signs of life so NASA dismissed the findings.
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