General / Off-Topic NASA Breaking News: The Building Blocks of Life on Mars

[Tiny_Rick]

An amazing discovery that NASA is currently breaking regarding the mineralogy, organics and signs of life on Mars:

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

 

[who?]

Interesting!

3 billion year old organic molecules, but only 5cm from the surface? Seems the surface has been quite static/settled for a looong time.

 

[Tiny_Rick]

I thought it was cool that as they climb the crater's inner mountain, they can test younger and younger soil samples.

 

[Para Handy]

Already a thread on this in the Astronomy sub-forum.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Announce-a-Massively-Exciting-Mars-Discovery


[where is it]

 

[Patrick_68000]

I can not wait to see a footprint of a Martian dinosausre