NASA's Curiosity rover has just provided evidence of a key ingredient for life on Mars. Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon in Martian rocks for the very first time.
It may have been living in the shadow of its younger sibling Perseverance for the last few months, but NASA's Curiosity rover has just provided evidence of a key ingredient for life on Mars.
reveals. Their results showed that there is an abundance of this key ingredient for life on the red planet.The Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 5, 2012, while the more recent Perseverance rover on February 18 last year. The Perseverance mission has recently performed several historic firsts, including the first controlled flight of a helicopter on another planet.
"Total organic carbon is one of several measurements [or indices] that help us understand how much material is available as feedstock for prebiotic chemistry and potentially biology," said Jennifer Stern of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland."We found at least 200 to 273 parts per million of organic carbon.
in the Yellowknife Bay formation of Gale crater, the site of an ancient lakebed on Mars. The rover then delivered the sample to its instrument, where an oven heated the powdered rock to progressively higher temperatures to take the measurements. The organic carbon was converted to carbon dioxide to measure the amount of organic carbon in the rocks.
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