OK sports fans...and especially planet fans, Viking 1 and 2 landed on Mars in 1976. At least two of its experiments dedicated to looking for microbial life in the soil, had inconclusive results. So, what say he? Did we find life or no? Vote!
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Let’s ask Spirit, Opposturnity and Curiosity. They’ve roamed all over the planet.
vcg1234
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May 8, 2018
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Absolutely right! But these brave explorers were not capable of finding life. They are outfitted with instruments that can assess the habitsbility of the planet or find clues that Mars ONCE MAY HAVE BEEN habitable. The Viking experiments I referred to, Labeled Release and Gas Chromatograph actually looked for life. For reasons I don't understand, we have not tried to verify the Viking measurements yet. ???
@AstroLou Hmmmm seems suspicious. LOL ? One of my earliest posts in this site was a question about how people may react - especially regarding religious beliefs - once we do find life elsewhere. Perhaps Mars, while heavily explored in comparison, will not be the home world of the first extraterrestrial life form disovered. My bets are on Enceladus or another outer planet moon.
Netflix film Europa Report - fun scifi could come closer to reality one day.
@LaMariposa Yes, LaMariposa, the outer solar system has some great candidates for habitable worlds. The problem is how to explore them in depth. The Europa Clipper orbited is a good first start!!
Let's start another conspiracy theory, although it's probably already been done. The test actually found life, but NASA lied about it. 
Has it ever been tested for again? How many landers is that without testing? The one that just launched from what I heard won't test for life.
bingst
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May 7, 2018
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Noooooooo!!! NASA has all the crazy conspiracy theories it can handle from a faked moon landing to alien beings walking among us. But you are right, the InSight spacecraft will not look for life. It will look for Mars Quakes, take the subsurface temperature of Mars and try to figure out what the insides of Mars are like.
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