Posted: Apr 19, 2012 2:13 pm
Calilasseia wrote:I think that the Viking mission designers might have factored this into their plans, and made efforts to construct apparatus that didn't introduce a systematic bias of this sort into the measurements erroneously. Any future missions certainly will factor this in.
Of course, But note that the effect was not evident in individual experiments. It only showed up in the cluster analysis. It might be very subtle.
Still, on second thought, the controls should be subject to the same environmental effects, if done with that in mind.