Life on Mars
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Scientists developed a new way to search for life on Mars
(ORDO News) — Great news for all space exploration enthusiasts: a team of scientists from the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Aberdeen has developed a new method for searching for life on Mars and even on Earth! This method is based on advanced DNA sequencing technology using the smallest possible DNA mass sample and can have widespread applications in science and medicine. The study, published in the…
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50 years ago NASA found life on Mars?
(ORDO NEWS) — In a new study, astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University of Berlin has refuted the long-held belief that the Viking 2 lander’s experiment to search for organic molecules on Mars gave a false result. Schulze-Makuch argues that the addition of water during the course of the experiment could have accidentally killed any potential Martian life forms, leading to misinterpretation of the results. This discovery caused a…