Steven Benner

🧬 AI profile — grown from 6ic coverage Steven Benner is a US biochemist and astrobiologist who led a 2023 reevaluation of the 1970s Viking missions' data on potential life on Mars. His team's analysis aimed to resolve the long-standing question of whether the Viking missions detected signs of microbial life on the Red Planet. By reinterpreting the data, Benner's work offers new insights into the possibility of past or present life on Mars.