Scientists Just Found Something Very Strange in Two Decades of Martian Climate Data

A new discovery of organic compounds on Mars gives researchers hope that if there were life there, the traces could still be found.

Scientists Just Found Something Very Strange in Two Decades of Martian Climate Data

For two decades, a European spacecraft has silently orbited Mars, capturing glimpses of a world that looks still—but hides a chaotic, invisible rhythm in its skies. Now, that rhythm has been decoded. In the most ambitious study of its kind, researchers have mapped the planet’s atmospheric waves on a global scale—rippling patterns of air that, […] The post Scientists Just Found Something Very Strange in Two Decades of Martian Climate Data appeare…

While the NASA Rover Curiosity has already discovered numerous organic molecules in the Gale crater, including various hydrocarbons and organic sulfur compounds, it has been controversial to date whether these molecules are actually of biological origin. Now, the Rover has discovered molecules in which a biological origin is possible. New molecules are discovered on Mars Some of the molecules detected in the past on Mars are typically produced b…

NASA's Curiosity rover detected the presence of three long-chain molecules that could indicate the existence of life on Mars. What did Curiosity find that could indicate life on Mars? According to NASA, the discovery was made after reanalyzing a Martian rock sample called Cumberland taken in 2013 by Curiosity. This sample was taken in Gale Crater, which, according to previous studies, housed a lake. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci…

The finding arose from an almost obsessive review on Mars. Ten years after the Curiosity rover pierced a rock the size of a shoebox in a dusty corner of the Gale crater, a French scientist returned to the data with a suspicion: there was something there that they had not seen before.Not one, but three long chain organic molecules, chemical fragments that are usually synonymous with life on Earth. She found the so-called dean, undecane, dodecane,…

The red planet has just given us a gold clue in the quest for the origins of the living.