Posted on 12/16/2014 4:22:20 PM PST by Islander7
NASA's 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.
"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, a member of the Curiosity rover science team. "There are many possible sources, biological or non-biological, such as interaction of water and rock."
(Excerpt) Read more at jpl.nasa.gov ...
There’s also dark rings around Uranus.
YESSSSS!!! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!!! F-150 OrganicDrive!!!
Note: this topic is from 12/16/2014 . Thanks Islander7.
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