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organic material on Mars
Friday, June 8, 2018 –
6:05am
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has discovered complex organic matter in
a dried-up lakebed on Mars.
The material was found after the rover drilled into the surface
of a 3.5 billion-year-old mudstone at the bottom of the Gale
crater.
Researchers have been quick to point out that the discovery does
not necessarily mean that there is, or has been, life on the red
planet.
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However, CNN says the organic matter “can be one of
several things: a record detailing ancient life, a food source for
life or something that exists in the place of life”.
“While we don’t know the source of the material, the amazing
consistency of the results makes me think we have a slam-dunk
signal for organics on Mars,” said Jennifer Eigenbrode, a
biogeochemist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre.
Researchers say they will require further samples that have not
been irradiated in order to get a clearer picture of the origin of
the organic matter.
In its search for the compounds, the Curiosity rover “only
scrapes off the top five centimetres” of stone, however ExoMars’s
Moma lab which is planned to be launched in 2020 will go down two
metres”, the ABC reports.
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