3 Billion-Year-Old Organic Matter Found on Mars

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Chemical Building Blocks 

For Life On Mars, Morning Edition, June 7, 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617235884/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-chemical-building-blocks-for-life-on-mars

 

NASA finds ancient organic material, mysterious 

methane on Mars, June 7, 2018 by Sean Potter, NASA

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-nasa-ancient-material-mysterious-methane.html

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7154

 

The abstract is at:

 

Eigenbrode, J.E., Summons, R.E., Steele, A., Freissinet, C.,

Millan, M., and many others, 2018, Organic matter 

preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale 

crater, Mars. Science. Vol. 360, Issue 6393, pp. 1096-1101

DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9185

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1096

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.