Life Found on Mars??

Researchers reanalyzing data from experiments on NASA's 1976 Viking mission say life was in fact detected in the soil of Mars by Viking.

The scientists looked at the data from the Gas Exchange experiment and said it indicated biological activity. Gilbert Lewis has been arguing for thirty years that Viking found life. Lewis was the lead invesitigator on Viking's Label Release experiment, which also looked at gases involved in biological processes. At the time, Lewis insisted his experiment had found life, but those findings seemed out of step with the results from the other experiments in the Viking suite, so NASA and the scientific community declined to make such a momentous claim.

Since then, however, we have discovered good evidence that early Mars could have supported life. We've also discovered life can flourish in a much wider range of environments than previously thought. We have the possibility of Martian life in a meteorite, and now we may have positive results from two Viking experiments. Maybe NASA should organize another scientific conference focused on the possibility of life on Mars.