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Much of the internet is buzzing over upcoming “big news” from NASA’s Curiosity rover, but the space agency’s scientists are keeping quiet about the details.
The report comes by way of the rover’s principal investigator, geologist John Grotzinger of Caltech, who said that Curiosity has uncovered exciting new results from a sample of Martian soil recently scooped up and placed in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by MrPlow
We've already discovered "organic molecules" in comets and asteroids.
Organics on Mars could be the result of meteoric imacts. (MSL is in a crater, you know?)
Any "eathshattering" news would have to be far different.
jw
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by MrPlow
We've already discovered "organic molecules" in comets and asteroids.
Organics on Mars could be the result of meteoric imacts. (MSL is in a crater, you know?)
Any "eathshattering" news would have to be far different.
jw
Curiosity’s suite of laboratory instruments are able to slowly heat a sample in a way that doesn’t trigger the perchlorates. They can also weigh any molecules present, determining how much carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen they are made from. Simple organic compounds wouldn’t be completely shocking, said Smith, since these probably come from meteorites originating in the asteroid belt and probably are around on present-day Mars. But they would indicate that the building blocks for life are present on Mars and might only need the addition of water, which Mars had in the past, in order to produce organisms.
Originally posted by MrPlow
I apologize if their is already a topic started. I couldn't find it.