IMA Fungus, 10:10. Alberto G. Fairén, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Lyle Whyte, Victor Parro, Alexander Pavlov, Javier Gómez-Elvira, Armando Azua-Bustos, Wolfgang Fink and Victor Baker. 2019. Planetary ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a researcher focused on astrobiology and planetary habitability, recently published an article on Big Think re-doubling a call that he and his fellow (now retired) scientist ...

A 2023 op-ed for Big Think, written by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D., proposes that the NASA Viking landers of the 1970s potentially discovered signs of life on Mars—only for scientists to ...

“All experiments should be re-evaluated, since we now have a much better understanding of Martian environments,” Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch told IE in an interview. Updated: Nov 29, 2024 05:22 AM EST ...

In fact, Schulze-Makuch believes NASA may have already detected life on Mars with its Viking landers in the 1970s. As microbial life in the Atacama Desert dies when exposed to too much water, the ...

Nearly 50 years after the Viking biology experiments, it is time for another life detection mission—now that we have a much better understanding of the Martian environment," Schulze-Makuch said.

Now, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, claims that there is another aspect of this mystery which is yet to be uncovered. Viking may have ...

However, astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch fears that the crafts may have killed potential life on Mars by putting water on it.

Schulze-Makuch suggests that Martian life, if it exists, might be similarly adapted to use salts, such as sodium chloride (NaCl), which is abundant on Mars, to extract and store water vapour.

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin, believes this might have happened. In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 mission involved two spacecraft that landed on the surface of ...

One researcher raises the possibility that life existed in a sample of Martian soil. And then, in our quest to sniff it, we snuffed it out. Just like that. According to astrobiologist Dirk ...

Reference: “Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment” by Alexander Bartholomäus, Steffi Genderjahn, Kai Mangelsdorf, Beate Schneider, Pedro Zamorano, ...