NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

Greg Bernhardt

An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...l20130312.html

Mordred

Good article thanks for posting it

julcab12

Quote by Greg Bernhardt

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...l20130312.html

Rich. Hope they'll find clay minerals, primordial tidal lagoons and pools somewhat indication of prebiotic stage but doubt still lingers since we don't have much confidence of its primordial atmosphere and also that low methane. Or does it have enough criteria for precellular to evolve.

But it do raises the probability even better. TFS

thorium1010

curiosity sees signs of water on mars -

The sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife Bay likely formed when original basaltic rocks were broken into fragments, transported, re-deposited as sedimentary particles, and mineralogically altered by exposure to water.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/wh...ws&NewsID=1446

Close-up View of Broken Mars Rock 'Tintina'. This is very interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21340279

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