TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.

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NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...

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Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.

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Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods ...