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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover took this selfie on June 13, 2018. The six-wheeled robot has repeatedly detected methane during its exploration of Mars' Gale Crater, and scientists are still trying to figure out where the gas is coming from.Since 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. is behaving erratically.
While a layer of solidified salt might explain the irregular behavior of Martian methane, scientists still don't know why methane even exists on Mars in the first place. On Earth, methane is primarily produced by living organisms — but we still haven't found signs of
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