The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and geology.
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It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet’s geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.


