NASA’s Curiosity rover – fitted with Air Liquide technology – has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on the Red Planet.
While not necessarily evidence of life itself, these findings are a good sign for future missions exploring the planet’s surface and subsurface.
Curiosity has found ‘tough’ organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near the surface, as well as seasonal variations in the levels of methane (CH4) in the atmosphere.
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