Potential organic salt detection from Curiosity yields further evidence for past organics on Mars
Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 05/23/2021
While organic compounds have been confirmed on the Martian surface and near-surface areas since 2018, new Earth-based experiments point to a potentially tantalizing series of signatures from Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that could indicate the presence of organic salts at the rover’s Gale Crater location.