[Young Werther]

The Martian Landers arrived in 1976 and their primary mission was to scoop up Martian Soil and place it in an incubator to determine if there was any Martian microbes.

Nope!

The remainder of the science recorders were a meterological station with anemonitor, temperature and moisture senors. In the last 30 odd years the Martian atmospheric temperature has increase 1 degree! but marivn didn't do it!

[cripplecreek]

Scraping a couple inches deep into soil that’s been heavily radiated for millions or even billions of years is hardly enough to make any declarations of life on an entire planet.

Here on earth we find microbes in core samples from miles deep.