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Finding Life by Looking for Complexity

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Viking Landers: A Pioneering, Still Amazing Landing on Mars

The Viking Landers, those pioneering, still amazing landings on Mars back in the mid-1970s, which attempted to detect life. What went wrong there? We didn't understand enough about Mars, right? But thanks to what NASA's help with other colleagues, we now have a model for it that can be used by future missions.

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