‘Mars may attempt contact by radio …’

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Is there life on Mars? We still don’t know, landings on the surface of the Red Planet notwithstanding. “On June 19, 1976, after a 10-month trip from the Earth to Mars, the first Viking spacecraft, a combined orbiter and lander, fired its engines for thirty-eight minutes and entered orbit around Mars,” says Space .