{"id":225000,"date":"2025-11-12T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-a-scientific-mistake-from-the-1970s-derailed-mars-exploration"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:15","slug":"how-a-scientific-mistake-from-the-1970s-derailed-mars-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-a-scientific-mistake-from-the-1970s-derailed-mars-exploration","title":{"rendered":"How a scientific mistake from the 1970s derailed Mars exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-scientific-mistake-from-the-1970s-derailed-mars-exploration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How a scientific mistake derailed Mars exploration for 50 years. What if Viking actually did discover life on Mars? See blog with our link to eLetter in <i>Science<\/i> at.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/how-a-scientific-mistake-from-the-1970s-derailed-mars-exploration\/\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/how-a-scientific-mistake-f\u2026ploration\/<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>All blogs and their links also on my website <a href=\"http:\/\/searchforlifeintheuniverse.com\">searchforlifeintheuniverse.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 1976, NASA\u2019s Viking landers searched for life on Mars. The Viking team announced Mars was lifeless \u2014 but the data was ambiguous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a scientific mistake derailed Mars exploration for 50 years. What if Viking actually did discover life on Mars? See blog with our link to eLetter in Science at. (https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/how-a-scientific-mistake-f\u2026ploration\/) All blogs and their links also on my website searchforlifeintheuniverse.com In 1976, NASA\u2019s Viking landers searched for life on Mars. The Viking team announced Mars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}