| Title | Curiosity Rover Drills into Mars Rock, Finds Water | |
| Date | Thursday December 18 2014, @03:21PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the every-rock-has-a-name dept. | ||
Space.com - Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water
The rover drilled into a piece of Martian rock called Cumberland and found some ancient water hidden within it. Researchers were then able to test a key ratio in the water with Curiosity's onboard instruments to gather more data about when Mars started to lose its water, NASA officials said. In the same sample, Curiosity also detected the first organic molecules it has found. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union's convention in San Francisco, where they also unveiled Curiosity's first detection of methane on Mars.
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