Mars Viking robots 'found life'

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Fri 13 Apr 12, 15:34pm AEST
Irene Klotz
New analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows NASA may have found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week. Further, NASA doesn't need a human expedition to Mars to nail down the claim, says neuropharmacologist and biologist Joseph Miller ofthe University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine . "The ultimate proof is to take a video of a Martian bacteria. They should send a microscope - watch the bacteria move," says Miller. "On the basis of what we've done so far, I'd say I'm 99 per cent sure there's life there." Miller's confidence stems in part from a new study that re-analysed results from a life-detection experiment conducted by NASA's Viking Mars robots in 1976.