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It was an electrifying announcement. At a hastily called press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, last weekend, Viking Scientist Harold Klein reported that the newly begun biology experiments aboard the Mars lander had already shown a strange process-perhaps life-going on in the Martian soil...
The evidence that excited Viking scientists came from two of the three biological tests that had begun only three days earlier. One of the Viking experiments, designed to detect respiration, showed that 15 times as much oxygen as the scientists expected had come from the Martian soil sample. The other...
Barghoorn added that it is possible that life once existed on Mars but is now extinct. The only way to detect that possibility would be to bring rocks from Mars back to Earth. He said we now have the technology for such a mission but it will probably not be...
Barghoorn said Mars seems to be the only body other than Earth in the solar system which could support life. But some scientists have recently suggested that life might exist on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, because it has a dense atmosphere.
The mission so far has lived up to the best expectations, Barghoorn said. Problems have occurred with the seismometer which was intended to measure tremors and volcanic activity on Mars.