In 1976, the Viking program’s orbiter and lander reached Mars, and the lander’s life experiments returned data that the scientists who had designed them had expected to see if living organisms were present in the soil. However, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fearing that a positive finding about life on the red planet would cause their Mars funding to be diverted to the manned spaceflight program, issued various denials and succeeded in clouding the picture sufficiently to insure that robotic programs would continue.
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Since his 2012 visit to Dreamland, Dr. John Brandenburg has made some truly amazing breakthroughs in his understanding of what happened to Mars in the distant past. Listen as he details the presence of numerous nuclear isotopes in the Martian soil and evidence in its atmosphere that it was once subjected to a massive atomic explosion that was easily capable of killing the whole planet and leaving it a wasteland.

What happened in the distant past that has given Mars the dark and bloody reputation it has had throughout human history? What happened there that we do not–or dare not–remember?

Chilling, startling and brilliant.

Visit John Brandenburg at LifeOnMars.pub.read more

Since his 2012 visit to Dreamland, Dr. John Brandenburg has made some truly amazing breakthroughs in his understanding of what happened to Mars in the distant past. Listen as he details the presence of numerous nuclear isotopes in the Martian soil and evidence in its atmosphere that it was once subjected to a massive atomic explosion that was easily capable of killing the whole planet and leaving it a wasteland.

What happened in the distant past that has given Mars the dark and bloody reputation it has had throughout human history? What happened there that we do not–or dare not–remember?

Chilling, startling and brilliant.

Visit John Brandenburg at LifeOnMars.pub.
read more

Since his 2012 visit to Dreamland, Dr. John Brandenburg has made some truly amazing breakthroughs in his understanding of what happened to Mars in the distant past. Listen as he details the presence of numerous nuclear isotopes in the Martian soil and evidence in its atmosphere that it was once subjected to a massive atomic explosion that was easily capable of killing the whole planet and leaving it a wasteland.

What happened in the distant past that has given Mars the dark and bloody reputation it has had throughout human history? What happened there that we do not–or dare not–remember?

Chilling, startling and brilliant.

Visit John Brandenburg at LifeOnMars.pub.
read more