NASA Spacecraft could accidentally destroy life on Mars 40 years ago

A NASA spacecraft could accidentally destroy life on Mars 40 years ago

In the mid-1970s, NASA sent Viking-1 and Viking-2 launchers to Mars. , who had to explore the soil of the red planet and find signs of organic molecules (carbon-based). Such a discovery would be proof that once a neighboring planet could support life.

However, the devices did not detect anything. Recently, a group of American and French researchers suggested that traces of life had been destroyed as a result of an error

Scientists believe that the process went wrong, since perchlorates were present in the ground.

These substances are used in rocket fuel and their presence in the samples could result in ignition. Thus, if organic molecules were present in the soil, they would have been destroyed.

Need for evidence of their hypothesis, they found in samples taken by Viking-2. This led to the conclusion that the device was really contaminated with organic matter that could destroy the evidence of life on Mars.

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