The Curiosity Rover has found signs of life

The NASA Rover has found organic molecules in the extracted during drilling samples. This may indicate the existence of life on the red planet not only last, but also the present.

The gas source is not installed yet, but on Earth, 95% of methane comes from microorganisms. Required supporting studies in order to prove the animal origin of methane. Molecules containing carbon that are found in the powdered sample during drilling of the rock.

They are given the opportunity to be evidence that Mars had previously, or live to this day the smallest organisms. Molecules somehow indicate favorable conditions for the emergence of life.

The NASA Rover Curiosity is on the equator in the Gale crater. His earlier studies have shown that in the plane of the planet existed spacious reservoirs and the atmosphere kept the temperature above zero degrees.

The Rover is located on the red planet for 2 years and during that time got to the mountain Aolida in the center of Gale crater. He conducts geological and geochemical studies, explores the atmosphere and climate, as well as looking for the presence of water.

As wrote earlier Days.Roux, American Rover Curiosity found on the surface of the planet metal fragments of the meteorite. This is the first time the Rover was able to find on the red planet space pebbles.

On 640th own day stay on Mars Rover Curiosity was moved to mount Aolida (it's also known as mount sharp) and came across a very large meteorite. In the photo you can see a six-foot piece of iron, resting in the Martian regolith. Raw photo produced Curiosity, additionally, you can see that close to a pair of meteorites lies another, the addition of iron and a width of about 2 meters.

The discovery may 25, 2014, is another confirmation of the mysterious phenomenon: meteorite found on the surface of the red planet, in most cases, is rich in iron. Scientists hope that the fact that a large iron-rich samples can be more resistant to the Martian erosion processes, if the rock. In other words, all findings of scientific workers simply would not fall apart on fundamental over time, and therefore were found.

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