WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Oct. 2 -- William and Mary issued the following news release:
Even the greats like musician David Bowie have asked: Is there life on Mars? In a symposium held earlier this month at William & Mary, Research Professor Joel Levine said we may have answered that question 50 years ago.
"The Exploration of Mars & the Search for Life: Viking to Humans" symposium was held in the Sadler Center on Sept. 18 and focused on the findings of the Viking Project. The project included humanity's first two successful landings of operational spacecraft on the surface of Mars in 1976; they are, to date, the only missions to look for present-day life on Mars.
The event served as a public forum to hear that life may have been discovered duri...