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

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to detect life. Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes this was a mistake. He suggests Martian life may have adapted to the planet's dry environment.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods.

An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life. The experiments, designed to detect life by introducing water, might have overwhelmed microbes adapted to Mars' hyperarid conditions.