[/caption] After 36 years of debate, confusion, and failed attempts by other space agencies to answer a basic question, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is on its way to repeat the search for organic matter that eluded the two Viking probes. With 96 days left until landing, MSL will touch down at the Gale Crater … Continue reading "SAM: NASA’s Attempt to Repeat Viking’s Search for Martian Organics"