The Exploratory Life-Sciences Experiments Aboard the Viking Spacecraft Landers Found

question 268

Multiple Choice

The exploratory life-sciences experiments aboard the Viking spacecraft landers found evidence of:

• A) a very sterile environment in which life could not have existed and a very chemically inert soil, reacting with almost no reageants.
• B) primitive life-forms such as elementary bacteria that should not be a hazard when humans explore Mars.
• C) very reactive chemistry in the Martian surface rocks, but no evidence of life or remnants of life-forms.
• D) primitive life-forms that had existed on Mars earlier in its history but had not survived.

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