NASA Finds New Evidence of Life-Supporting Ingredient on Mars

[mick silver]

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NASA (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/nasa.htm)'s Curiosity rover (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/curiosity-rover.htm) has found new evidence of nitrogen on Mars, proving that the red planet (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/science/planet-mars.htm) has -- or at least had -- the right stuff to sustain life.
The rover drilled into Martian rocks and discovered evidence of nitrates, which are essential compounds to the building blocks of life.
"The discovery adds to the evidence that ancient Mars was habitable for life," NASA said in a blog post.
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Despite the finding, the space agency said "there is no evidence to suggest that the fixed nitrogen molecules found by the team were created by life."
The nitrates are believed to be ancient and likely came from meteorite impacts or lightning events, according to NASA, which was also pointed out that the surface of Mars is currently inhospitable to known life forms.
Curiosity has also found signs other elements needed for life once existed on the red planet, including liquid water and organic matter, which were located in the Gale Crater billions of years ago, according to NASA.

[Glass]

I'm not sure what the point of the article is. There is no correlation between life and the nitrogen. So it is not a life supporting ingredient at all. they say so in the story.

The nitrogen did not come from life.

They say it came from either a meteor OR Lightning. ??

I think that is pretty telling. Lightning. Electricity. Same thing that caused most of the craters on the moons surface. Not impacts of objects as there is no residual meteoric material.

I guess the atmosphere is too thin to support a flying drone. The pace of travel that these rovers can achieve seems pretty low. How many years has that thing been there? I think it's travelled a couple of kilometers or a few miles in all that time.

ah ok since 2004 it's traveled 25 miles. up to July 2014

40 kilometers


NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record was held by the Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 rover.Jul 28, 2014

[Horn]

Looks like a rainbow in the top right atmosphere...

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[cheka.]

nasa? what a joke

could fill this thread up with ridiculous nasa spew

[Glass]

yeah explain to me how that image was taken? Is that an old image taken just after it touched down?

Its clearly not a selfie so it can't be recent. I think the bands of discoloration are probably interference to the CCD

[Horn]

Yeah some how the onbaord camera is able to take piecemeal shots then paste them all together appearing as a floating shot.

I dunno? think a shadow of the extension arm would be in there somewhere,,,

maybe where the rainbow comes from, but never seen that kind of rainbow interference.

[StreetsOfGold]

The Computer graphics are pretty amazing now-a-days.
Almost looks real...................almost.