NASA allegedly accidentally burned evidence of life on Mars 42 years ago

NASA made history when it confirmed the existence of organic life on Mars; A little more than a month ago However, new research suggests that it is a finding that took 42 years to be corroborated because of an error by the space agency.

The project, published in Journal of Geophysical Research thoroughly reconstructs the Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions conducted between 1975 and 1976.

These probes would originally have a short stay on the red planet. But in the end, they ended up living in the star for more than six years.

But they found nothing in these second tests that suggested the existence of life on Mars. Contrary to the curiosity that detected chlorobenzene by releasing the same salt. No need to badyze the samples thoroughly in the laboratory. Given this immediate reaction as evidence of the existence of organic matter.

The tricky point is that when studying data Viking missions; NASA astronauts may have also found organic material. But apparently, they heated the perchlorate in the samples and with that they also destroyed the fragile evidence of life.

This is one of the conclusions of the investigation. But the authors of the project themselves are divided on the situation

Although this would perfectly explain why in 1976 life was not discovered on Mars.