We Have Found Evidence Of Life On Mars – Former NASA Scientist Says

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – Many are curious and wonder whether there is life on Mars or not. Explorations of the Red Planet have already cost billions of dollars and people are eager to know if we have detected positive results offering evidence extraterrestrial life may still be present on Mars.

However, a former NASA scientist says we have already found evidence of life on Mars!

The view from Viking. Credit: NASA

Gilbert V. Levin who was the principal investigator on a NASA experiment that sent Viking landers to Mars in 1976 says the agency uncovered signs of alien life on the Red Planet.

In an article published by Scientific American, Levin explains Martian soil samples were taken by two landers to search for signs of biological life. The experiment’s positive results were proof of life on the red planet.

The experiment, called Labeled Release (LR), was designed to test Martian soil for organic matter. “It seemed we had answered that ultimate question,” Levin wrote in the article.

NASA disagrees however and contradicts Levin’s statement by saying the mission “provided no clear evidence for the presence of living microorganisms in soil near the landing sites.”

As CNN reports, “In the experiment, the Viking probes placed nutrients in Mars soil samples — if life were present, it would consume the food and leave gaseous traces of its metabolism, which radioactive monitors would then detect.

To make sure it was a biological reaction, the test was repeated after cooking the soil, which would prove lethal to known life. If there was a measurable reaction in the first and not the second sample, that would suggest biological forces at work — and that’s exactly what happened, according to Levin.

However, other experiments failed to find any organic material and NASA couldn’t duplicate the results in their laboratory — so they dismissed the positive result as false positives, some unknown chemical reaction rather than proof of extraterrestrial life.”

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“NASA concluded that the LR had found a substance mimicking life, but not life,” said Levin in his article. “Inexplicably, over the 43 years since Viking, none of NASA’s subsequent Mars landers has carried a life-detection instrument to follow up on these exciting results.”

“What is the evidence against the possibility of life on Mars?” Levin wrote. “The astonishing fact is that there is none.”

NASA plans on further missions to Mars, but the agency has already announced its 2020 Mars lander will not contain a life-detection test.

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer