An experiment carried out in the 1970s might be to blame.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that an experiment carried out in the 1970s that added water to Martian soil drowned any life that could have existed life on Mars 50 years ago but accidentally drowned it.
The test, known as the Viking Labeled Release experiment, was one of three biology experiments conducted by the Viking landers on Mars in 1976. The theory was that if life were on Mars, microorganisms would consume the nutrients and release the radioactive carbon as a gas.
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