Nasa’s Perseverance Rover finds more signs that life might have existed on Mars

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The Sherloc instrument onboard Nasa’s Mars rover Perserverance has detected organic compounds that suggest a part of the planet’s surface might have been habitable at one point.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study has found more evidence that life could have once existed on the Red Planet,The research team was one of three that analysed data from various instruments onboard the rover and published theirIts focus was on the rover’s onboard ultraviolet spectrometer called Sherloc, short for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals.

“They are not necessarily signs of life, but you want to see liquid water and organic compounds together in an environment because they’re the key components of what could make an environment habitable,” explained study lead Eva Scheller.The organic compounds could also be created through non-biological processes.

Scheller’s team also estimated that the area where Sherloc detected the organic compounds and other chemicals had water around 3.8 billion years ago.

 

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