The team working with the NASA Curiosity rover has released an interesting new result today. The robotic rover has drilled into rocks on the surface of Mars, and its Sample Analysis at Mars and Chemistry and Mineralogy instruments have determined that at some point in history the surface could have supported microbial life.
In the ground up sample, the scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon - all of which are considered chemical ingredients for life. Th...
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