NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars

Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory's drill.

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