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NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years.
The rover drilled into a piece of Martian rock called Cumberland and found some ancient water hidden within it. Researchers were then able to test a key ratio in the water with Curiosity's onboard instruments to gather more data about when Mars started to lose its water, NASA officials said. In the same sample, Curiosity also detected the first organic molecules it has found. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference today (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union's convention in San Francisco, where they also unveiled Curiosity's first detection of methane on Mars.
originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: Blue Shift
im checking the chem cams now , there's been an influx
found a link from their home page with this vid
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...
funbox
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: gort51
a reply to: funbox
Exactly, they might as well just say, we have found water, organic materials and methane on Mars...
They could find that in anyone's toilet, but you won't see anyone waving back at you from inside the porcelain god.
originally posted by: lostbook
a reply to: ugmold
Why won't they stop beating around the bush and admit that life has been found.
. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference today (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union's convention in San Francisco
originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: gort51
tooo little information , one sec .. ORGANIC MOLECULE ... begs another question ,,, was it alive or dead?
originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: wildespace
According to Yahoo:
. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference today (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union's convention in San Francisco