In his article, he highlights the Red Planet’s Southern Highlands as a potential landing ... NASA’s Viking program sent two identical probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars.

First completely successful mission to Mars with Mariner 4 First successful Martian orbiter with Mariner 9 First completely successful Martian landing with Viking 1 First successful Martian rover ...

Viking 1 and Viking 2 each included an orbiter and ... and not other microbes hidden in the Martian soil around the landers. So, landing on Mars doesn't necessarily mean we are killing off ...

One of the Red Planet’s features is known as the Martian dichotomy, which describes the sharp contrast between its southern ...

Call for New Mars Life-Detection Missions Nearly 50 years after the Viking missions, Schulze-Makuch emphasizes the need for updated life-detection missions using modern methods and a better ...