| Title | NASA Rover Discovers Mysterious Martian Methane Emissions | |
| Date | Wednesday December 17 2014, @05:22PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the tantalizing-teasers dept. | ||
boing boing reports - On Mars, NASA Rover Discovers Mysterious Methane Emissions
Potentially big news from space today. NASA announces that its Mars Curiosity rover "has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill."
Original papers at NASA
"This temporary increase in methane -- sharply up and then back down -- tells us there must be some relatively localized source," said Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Curiosity rover science team. "There are many possible sources, biological or non-biological, such as interaction of water and rock."
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