Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

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.

Chryse Planitia was the landing site of NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 and is a vast lowland region formed by an ancient impact. Using high-resolution images and spectral composition data from the ...