Searching for Life on Mars: the Role of Chaos

Chaotic/fractal analysis of the Viking LR (Labeled Release) experiment and of Mars rover images provides evidences of present and, respectively, past life on Mars, suggesting the presence of microorganisms on the Red Planet. The possible presence of living beings on Mars is an open question that cannot be disproven at this time. 75 Bianciardi, Search for Life on Mars restarting the entire run, he decided to save time and restart the run from somewhere in the middle. While they matched at first, the runs eventually began to diverge dramatically—the second run losing all resemblance to the first within a few "model" months, a long story that resulted in presenting a way to treat this strange indeterministic world. Currently, in physics and biology, chaos description clearly appears able to describe our real world. What is chaos? In everyday language "chaos" implies the existence of unpredictable behavior. Chaos embodies important principles: extreme sensitivity to initial conditions due to nonlinearity; complex dynamics where cause and effect are not proportional; long-term prediction becomes impossible; a statistical description of the dynamic system is possible, only. Chaos owns a geometry; it is the fractal geometry that was revealed by Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Trees and bronchial trees, tissues under microscope as well as neurons, can be described by the geometry of chaos (fractal geometry), with their statistical laws, like self-similarity. This new geometry permits us to examine, to measure, the biological entities with high deep meaning. Fractal structures are also clearly visible in physics: solar system, galaxies, . . . . Our Results: Searching for Signs of Life on the Red Planet by Chaotic Analysis Chaotic Analysis of Viking LR Experiments The first (and only) known life detection experiments on Mars were performed by the Viking landers in 1976. One of these was the Labeled Release (LR) experiment by Levin and Straat with the injections of organic compounds in Martian soil samples (Figure