Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was launched in 1975 to explore the possibility of life on Mars. However, one scientist believes that it may have damaged the same possibility, in the course of exploration. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft made history when it entered orbit around Mars. Its mission, along with others, was to detect if microbial life was possible on the otherwise elusive red planet .To accomplish such a task two landers were released on the Martian surface,

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also mentioned that Martian life may have adapted to the planet's dry environment