{"id":244,"date":"2007-01-08T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T01:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2007-01-08T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T01:04:23","slug":"scientist-nasa-found-life-on-mars-and-killed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/08\/scientist-nasa-found-life-on-mars-and-killed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist: NASA found life on Mars &#8212; and killed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Theory:Mars microbes drowned, baked by acciden<\/li>\n<li>Research focuses on Viking space probes of 1970s<\/li>\n<li>Other scientists say theory is plausible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> (AP) &#8212; Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.<\/p>\n<p>The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn&#8217;t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Schulze-Makuch presented his theory in a paper delivered at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The paper was released Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a more expansive view of where life can take root, the paper&#8217;s findings may prompt NASA to look for a different type of Martian life when its next spacecraft to visit Mars is launched later this year, one of the space agency&#8217;s top scientists said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/01\/07\/mars.life.ap\/index.html\">[[MORE]] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory:Mars microbes drowned, baked by acciden Research focuses on Viking space probes of 1970s Other scientists say theory is plausible WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/08\/scientist-nasa-found-life-on-mars-and-killed-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}