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When the first of the two Viking landers touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976, and began to send camera images back to earth, t
When the first of the two Viking landers touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976, and began to send camera images back to earth, t
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When the first of the two Viking landers touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976, and began to send camera images back to earth, the scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory could not
suppress
a certain nervous anticipation, like people
holding a lottery
ticket that they have a one-in-a-million chance of winning. The first photographs that arrived, however, did not contain any evidence of life. What revealed itself to them was merely a barren landscape littered with rocks and boulders. The view resembled nothing so much as a flat section of desert.
The scientists were soon ready to turn their attention from visible life to microorganisms. The twin Viking landers carried three experiments designed to detect current biological activity and one to detect organic compounds, because researchers thought it possible that life had developed on early Mars just as it is thought to have developed on earth, through the gradual chemical evolution of complex organic molecules. To detect biological activity, Martian soil samples were treated with various nutrients that would produce characteristic by-products if life forms were active in the soil. The results from all three experiments were inconclusive. The fourth experiment heated a soil sample to look for signs of organic material, but found none, an unexpected result because at least organic compounds from the bombardment of the Martian surface by meteorites were thought to have been present.
The absence of organic materials, some scientists speculated, was the result of intense ultraviolet radiation penetrating the atmosphere of Mars and destroying organic compounds in the soil. Although Mars’ atmosphere was, at one time, rich in carbon dioxide and thus thick enough to protect its surface from the harmful rays of the sun, the carbon dioxide had gradually left the atmosphere and been converted into rocks. This means that even if life had gotten a start on early Mars, it could not have survived the exposure to ultraviolet radiation when the atmosphere thinned.
Despite the disappointing Viking results, there are those who still keep the possibility of life on Mars open. They point out that the Viking data cannot be considered the final word on Martian life because the two landers only sampled two limited—and uninteresting—sites. The Viking landing sites were not chosen for what they might tell of the planet’s biology. They were chosen primarily because they appeared to be safe for landing a spacecraft. The landing sites were on parts of the Martian plains that appeared relatively featureless from orbital photographs.
The type of Martian terrain that these researchers suggest may be a possible hiding place because active life has an earthly parallel: the ice-free region of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, where the temperatures in some dry valleys average below zero. Organisms known as endoliths, a form of blue-green algae that has adapted to this harsh environment, were found living inside certain rocks in these Antarctic valleys. The argument based on this discovery is that if life did exist on early Mars, it is possible that it escaped worsening conditions by similarly seeking refuge in rocks. Skeptics object, however, that Mars in its present state is simply too dry, even compared with Antarctic valleys, to sustain any life whatsoever.
Should Mars eventually prove to be completely barren of life, as some suspect, then this would have a significant impact on the current view of the chemical origin of life. It could be much more difficult to get life started on a planet than scientists thought before the Viking landings.
It can be inferred from the passage that Mars________.
选项
A、was not able to support any life as the earth is
B、possessed at one time an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide, but the earth did not
C、accumulated organic compounds from meteorites
D、had an atmospheric layer that protected organic compounds
答案
A
解析
本题问从文章中能推断出什么。第3段最后一句提到,“这就意味着,即便火星早期时有生命存在过,当大气层变薄后,它也没能抵挡与紫外线辐射的接触从而生存下来”,因此A项“火星不能像地球一样支持生命的存在”说法正确。B项“曾经拥有二氧化碳含量丰富的大气层,但地球没有”,文中只提到前半句,后半句无提及,因此排除;C项“从陨石积累了有机化合物”,与文意相反。也排除;D项“曾经有能够保护有机化合物的大气层”,第3段提到即便曾经有很厚的二氧化碳层,但最后也离开了大气层成了岩石,因此D项也排除。
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