All About Mars Thread

[Debi]

Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter | Coast to Coast AM

Last week, NASA officials announced the discovery of organic matter in Martian rock samples found by the Perseverance rover team.

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OK, NASA says just because it's organic doesn't mean it's signs that life was there. Now, I looked up the definition of "organic"...

1. relating to or derived from living matter:
   "organic soils"
   synonyms:
   living · live · animate · biological · natural · biotic
   
   
   

 

[GoneWestUtah]

In NASA-ese, "organics" mean hydrocarbons. They are ubiquitous in the solar system but have been elusive on Mars so-far. They are the "building blocks" of life but exist in huge, non-biotic quantities and from non-biotic sources.

 

[Lynne]

Everything the rover finds on Mars is interesting. I wonder if an aptmosphere could be created there? If so, it would be possible to terraform the planet!

 

[Debi]

Everything the rover finds on Mars is interesting. I wonder if an aptmosphere could be created there? If so, it would be possible to terraform the planet!

They are already pumping oxygen there. Not much but proves it can be done.

Perseverance can make as much oxygen on Mars as a small tree

NASA's MOXIE experiment, part of the Perseverance rover mission, has been successfully making oxygen from Mars' carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere since February 2021, newly published research shows.

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[Debi]

More about Mars!

Listen to the weird first recordings of meteoroids crashing into Mars | Boing Boing

NASA · InSight Captures Sound of a Meteoroid Striking Mars Listen above to the first recorded sounds of meteoroids hitting the surface of the Red Planet. NASA’s InSight lander captured the se…

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[Debi]

New clues about early atmosphere on Mars suggest a wet planet capable of supporting life

New research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing warm-to-hot oceans for millions of years. To reach this conclusion, researchers developed the first model of the evolution of the Martian atmosphere that links the high...

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