Science, Technology and Society 361: "Mars Exploration" -- Fall 2010

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Did NASA accidentally kill life on Mars?

This article discusses that two space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found microbes and inadvertently killed them because the probes didn't recognize martian life. Scientists claim that unlike earth-like life, life forms on mars would be hydrogen peroxide-based. i thought that this article was interesting because we have found life in many extreme environments on earth, so why not on mars?

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