NASA: Actually, Viking DID Find Organic Material On Mars

2:59 pm EST September 3rd, 2010 | Science | 7 Comments

We need to go.

Thirty-four years after NASA’s Viking missions to Mars sent back results interpreted to mean there was no organic material – and consequently no life – on the planet, new research has concluded that organic material was found after all.

The finding does not bring scientists closer to discovering life on Mars, researchers say, but it does open the door to a greater likelihood that life exists, or once existed, on the planet.

‘We can now say there is organic material on Mars, and that the Viking organics experiment that didn’t find any had most likely destroyed what was there during the testing,’ said Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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7 Responses to “NASA: Actually, Viking DID Find Organic Material On Mars”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    September 3, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    More importantly, how does this improve Muslims’ self esteem?

  2. isms says:
    September 3, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Will the Book of Mars follow the Book of Revelation or does it precede the Book of Genesis?

  3. hnice says:
    September 3, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    Farris, could you possibly hate muslims more? Your comment is apropos of nothing. I mean, what is it — was your mom mugged by a muslim? Did a muslim kid steal your teddy bear? Is it that most of them are brown, so they scare you?

    Follow-up question: how many times a day do you catch a glimpse of yourself in a mirror and barf a little in your mouth?

  4. Mike Brown says:
    September 3, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    Ummm…you guys do realize that organic!= biological?
    Jupiter is replete with organic compounds, but no life(more than likely not). Compounds can be classified as organic by simply having carbon as a molecular base.

  5. doctorpsycho1960 says:
    September 3, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    There are three kinds of people in this world, when it comes to the announcement of a new scientific discovery that is possibly very important and useful and which at the very least reminds us that the universe is truly a marvelous place:

    Those who respond with quiet awe and cheerful excitement.

    Those who respond with a raft of questions and speculation.

    Those who look for a way to use it to further the meanest and lowest parts of their personal agenda.

  6. Jaim says:
    September 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    The trolls on this site truly are racist scum.

  7. timmy says:
    September 3, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    I know a wingnut who absolutely flipped out when the Mars meteorite was found. He’d criticize the more rational minds who pondered the discovery. Later, turned out he was a latent homosexual.

    Anyways, I find the theory that Mars was once far more earthlike interesting.