{"id":4566,"date":"2006-11-02T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2006-11-02T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T01:37:12","slug":"mars-all-up-in-your-face-and-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/mars-all-up-in-your-face-and-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars All Up in Your Face and Shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/MRO\/multimedia\/pia01923.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"160626main_pia01923-516.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/160626main_pia01923-516.jpg\" width=\"516\" height=\"506\"  border=\"0\"\/><br \/>Gullies in Sirenum Terra, Mars <br \/>(image credit: NASA\/JPL\/Univ. of Arizona<\/a>  <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=3226\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><strong>Viking landers may have found Martian life after all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientistspace.com\/article\/dn10361-viking-landers-may-have-missed-martian-life.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">A flawed test on NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s twin Viking spacecraft may have fooled scientists into overlooking signs of life during their examination of the Martian surface 30 years ago<\/a>. Researchers now say that one of the landers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experiments was not sensitive enough to find organic molecules in the soil, despite signs of life shown by another test. Other researchers say the team may also have been fooled by the strange forms that Martian life might take.<\/p>\n<p>The results from Vikings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 onboard experiments are confusing because some tests suggested the presence of organisms capable of digesting organic molecules. But a gas-chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) found nothing when the soil was heated to release organic molecules, causing most scientists to doubt the results of the life-detection tests. Instead they put the soil reactivity down to the presence of peroxides or other reactive substances.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientistspace.com\/article\/dn10361-viking-landers-may-have-missed-martian-life.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">new scientist space<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gullies in Sirenum Terra, Mars (image credit: NASA\/JPL\/Univ. of Arizona (via warren ellis) Viking landers may have found Martian life after all A flawed test on NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s twin Viking spacecraft may have fooled scientists into overlooking signs of life during their examination of the Martian surface 30 years ago. Researchers now say that one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}