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Is there life on Mars?
Three experiments conducted on the composition of the Martian soil and atmosphere carried out by the Viking Lander in July 1976 offered no evidence of life on Mars. However, new findings have raised the possibility that there may have once been life on the red planet.
In early August 1996, a team of nine researchers led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) detected possible evidence of ancient Martian life. This evidence is contained in a Martian meteorite that landed on Earth 13,000 years ago.
In 1984, American scientists in Antarctica discovered the four-and-a-half-billion-year-old, squash-sized chunk of rock (named ALH 84001). They originally identified it as a fragment of an asteroid (a rocky chunk of material in orbit around the sun). Ten years later scientists took another look at the rock and found that its chemical composition matched that of the surface of Mars.
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