According to astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University Berlin in Germany, an experiment to detect the signs of microbial life on Mars could have been deadly.

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft made history when it entered orbit around Mars. Its mission, along with others, was to detect if microbial life was possible on the otherwise elusive red planet .To accomplish such a task two landers were released on the Martian surface,

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also mentioned that Martian life may have adapted to the planet's dry environment

A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA’s Viking 1 mission, which saw two spacecraft land on Mars and conduct grou

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to detect life. Astrobiologist D

Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have unintentionally killed all life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1975 saw two spacecraft land on the Red Planet's surface and conduct an experiment involving mixing water and nutrients with collected soil samples.

An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life. The experiments, designed to detect life by introducing water, might have overwhelmed microbes adapted to Mars' hyperarid conditions.