Mars, it appears, is belching a large amount of a gas that could be a sign of microbes living on the planet today.
The mission’s controllers on Earth sent new instructions to the rover Friday to follow up on the readings, bumping previously planned science work. The results of these observations were expected back on the ground on Monday. It is also possible that the methane is ancient, trapped inside Mars for millions of years but escaping intermittently through cracks.
Scientists first reported detections of methane on Mars a decade and a half ago using measurements from Mars Express, an orbiting spacecraft built by the European Space Agency and still in operation, as well as from telescopes on Earth. However, those findings were at the edge of the detection power of these tools, and many researchers thought the methane might just be a mirage of mistaken data.
Marco Giuranna, a scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy, who leads the Mars Express orbiter’s methane measurements, said scientists on the Curiosity, Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter missions had been discussing the latest findings. He confirmed he had been told of the reading of 21 parts per billion but added that the finding was preliminary.
There’s no life on Mars. There’s no water on Mars. No scientific integrity. They just want more funding.
It was a Muslim mars terrorist.
ya right. I wish they would share that 40 million mile wifi connection with the rest of the world.
see what happens when you don't have a carbon tax.
They have farts on Mars, too? Who else knows this?
OMG, now there a climate emergency on mars too? Things are getting bad.
who smelt it.
Yeah ...it's Cheech and Chong !
are you sure that it's not a manned rover on mars. lol
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