Space News: NASA's Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars - Lake County News
7/2/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Bill Steigerwald
by Bill Steigerwald
Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon — a key component in the molecules of life — in Martian rocks for the first time.
From a position in the shallow "Yellowknife Bay" depression, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its right Mast Camera (Mastcam) to take the telephoto images combined into this panorama of geological di… [+5362 chars]
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