Did Viking Missions Overlook Life on Mars, or Worse?

story.mars.nasa.jpgSnarkiest science headline of the year (so far):

“Scientist: NASA found life on Mars – and killed it”

From the piece (on CNN Technology):

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.

The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn’t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said.

Read the rest of the piece here.

Thanks, Ron!