Mars Rover Detects Primordial Signs of Life Under the Red Planet's Surface.

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NASA's Curiosity rover has found a sky-high amount of methane while sampling in Mars' Gale Crater (shown here).
Credit: NASA
▼ The Mars rover Curiosity has uncovered a potential sign of life on the Red Planet — the planet's highest-ever measurement of a natural gas called methane.
On Earth, methane primarily comes from  microbes, who breathe out the gas. It's possible that life-forms hiding under Mars' crust are also responsible for this latest measurement, according to NASA. But don't get too excited — yet. Life isn't the only potential explanation for the finding. Methane is also created by chemical reactions between rocks and water, according to NASA.
"With our current measurements, we have no way of telling if the methane source is biology or geology," principal investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a  statement.
Plus, even this record-high methane measurement pales in comparison with average methane levels on Earth. Curiosity measured methane concentrations of 21 parts per billion (ppb) on Mars. In comparison, Earth's methane concentrationsare close to 1,860 ppb.
Curiosity has detected methane in the past, albeit at much lower concentrations. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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I once detected primordial signs of life under my dirty laundry basket...

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Rhett Bassard 25-6-2019 02:49 AM
I once detected primordial signs of life under my dirty laundry basket...

With one of these minimicroscopes, it is possible to detect life in the most unsuspected places and beyond what our tired eyes can see...
I know from experience, I have one...