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Curiosity rover finds key ingredient for past life on Mars
In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and Environment Studies as well as a NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover team, the data marks a major moment in the search for extraterrestrial life.
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence for long-ago CO2 atmosphere on Mars
To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then drops the powdered rock samples into an instrument in its belly called CheMin. The instrument, developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, uses X-ray diffraction to analyze rocks and soil.
Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon dioxide to support liquid water existing on the planet's surface. As the atmosphere thinned, the carbon dioxide transformed into rock form.
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Mars May Have Experienced a Great Dying Event Similar to Earth'sLearn more about the Curiosity's carbonate discovery on Mars, and what it tells of about Mars' past and Earth's future.
A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...
The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the ... and nitrates and methane, which on Earth can be associated with living things ...
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