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OK, headline is more worrying that it needs to be - makes it sounds like we accidentally killed ALL life on Mars. It's actually referring to possible life in the soil sample the Viking lander poured water on.

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Thanks! As usual, the subtitle contains a cromulent substring that we can use instead.

passive aggressive subtitle vs. headline wars ftw

Ahem.

Also, the part where they heated all (?) the samples before testing sounds more problematic than pouring water on some (especially since parts of mars hit 100% humidity, per the article).

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