Scientists from the Curiosity team led by Paul Mahaffey have found the second place where large reserves are located
In this area, the rover previously found rock deposits,formed in hot springs. The researchers suggested that life could exist here. Therefore, researchers from the Curiosity mission sent the rover to study the Bagnold dunes, as well as collect soil and rock samples.
Directly installed on Curiositya device for conducting experiments in so-called “wet chemistry”—this is when soil samples are crushed and washed with a special substance that dissolves complex organic matter and allows its existence to be determined using a chromatograph.
As a result, scientists found in new samplesbenzene compounds, various amines, phenols, phosphoric acid, as well as twenty complex organic molecules. Their exact composition is still unknown due to the limited capabilities of the laboratory at Curiosity.
We do not have amino acids in these soil samples.discovered, however, there are derivatives of benzene and ammonia, phenols, phosphoric acid and high molecular weight compounds. We have not yet established the origin of these substances.
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The authors hope that later they will be able to find traces of amino acids and other substances that became the basis for the emergence of Martian life.
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