NASA may have found life on Mars
The Future. NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered that life found a way to exist on Mars, despite harsh conditions. The rover found several molecules that could be considered the building blocks of life. If the samples are well-preserved and make it back to Earth on a subsequent mission, we could one day see with our very eyes fossils from the Red Planet.
Is there anybody out there?Per Vice, the answer may be yes.
NASA’s Perseverance rover found “an abundance of organic molecules” in Mars’ Jezero Crater — where water used to exist some 3 billion years ago.
Those organic molecules are left behind by past “living things” or by “abiotic chemical processes.”
There are so many of these molecules that every “target” the rover has scanned contains them.
The molecule detection is made possible by a new tool that was equipped with the Perseverance — the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC — a terrific acronym).
While the rover hasn’t been able to tell if there are currently any “biosignatures” on Mars, the plan is for the samples to get picked up by a future mission and then brought back to Earth for analysis — hopefully revealing fossilized microbes.
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