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...leader of the Viking mission, published about the time that the first U.S. lander went to work on the surface of Mars. Yet last November, after these same life-seeking experiments aboard both the Viking landers had shown apparently positive results in tests of Martian soil, Klein and other NASA scientists seemed unsure. In a Washington press conference summarizing the Viking findings, they announced that the results made it impossible to say that there was or was not life on Mars. That has remained NASA's official position. But unofficially, a handful of scientists support the view of Physicist...
There is good reason for Soffen's -and NASA's-caution; the implications of discovering any form of life on Mars are so staggering that no scientist can afford to be wrong. But the ambiguities surrounding the Viking biology tests may soon be resolved. Now that Mars has re-emerged from behind the sun-which blocked transmissions between Viking and the earth for more than a month late last year-scientists have "reawakened" the sleeping laboratories and instructed them to run a new round of experiments...
...ashes of dead stars, and human beings are litterally star children. People−and all other forms of life on earth−are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. "All of chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars," says Astrophysicist Patrick Thaddeus of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. "With the exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear reactions within stars...
...other end are sociological studies done for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the spring of this year. Between 1950 and now, Rand researchers seem to have studied subjects as diverse as any in the world, as well as a few beyond this world at NASA's request...
...picture of the distant galaxy, taken by Hale Observatories Astronomer Halton Arp, reveals that M87 is even more remarkable than scientists had thought. The product of computer-enhancement techniques developed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Arp's picture shows that M87 is ejecting not merely a single stream of matter but a whole series of dense, luminous objects (bottom). Says Arp: "The galaxy must have undergone an explosion or a succession of explosions that threw them out at high velocity. The most intriguing question is: What will they develop into...