Is NASA ignoring proof of Martian life from the 1970s? [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
ROBBY BERMAN
13 October, 2019

All the proof we need could be in these old data boxes.

A former NASA consultant believe his experiments on the Viking 1 and 2 landers proved the existence of living microorganisms on Mars

Because of other conflicting data, his experiments' results have been largely discarded.

Though other subsequent evidence supports their findings, he says NASA has been frustratingly disinterested in following up.

Gilbert V. Levin is clearly aggravated with NASA, frustrated by the agency's apparent unwillingness to acknowledge what he considers a fact: That NASA has had dispositive proof of living microorganisms on Mars since 1976, and a great deal of additional evidence since then. Levin is no conspiracy theorist, either. He's an engineer, a respected inventor, founder of scientific-research company Spherix, and a participant in that 1976 NASA mission. He's written an opinion piece in Scientific American that asks why NASA won't follow up on what he believes they should already know.

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