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 ...

One of the Red Planet’s features is known as the Martian dichotomy, which describes the sharp contrast between its southern and northern hemispheres. Around one-third of the planet's northern ...

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 ...