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Just to clarify. This guy -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi in a conference in Rome today said that wha
by pitiburi 14y ago
Just to clarify.
This guy -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi
in a conference in Rome today said that what they found in Mars was organic molecules. He said it was a "perhaps" because they still have to check the data. He also said that Curiosity can not say if an organic molecule is biological or not, so all they can say is that there are organic molecules. Again, perhaps, until the data checking ends and full data is presented.
All this reported by ANSA.
PD: it was in a conference in La Sapienza, in Rome, hardly a remote and/or obscure university/place.
- pitiburi 14y agoFor those who understand italian, here you have the news explained with details from the head of Scientific American in Italia, in video: http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/curiosity-sonda-marte/cattaneo-molecole-organiche-su-marte-se-confermato-ecco-cosa-significa/112121/110517 http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/curiosity-sonda-marte/cat...
- gus_massa 14y agoWithout more details this is not a very interesting new. Methane is an organic molecule and we have found it everywhere in space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Extraterrestrial_methane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Extraterrestrial_methan...
- pitiburi 14y agoIn the soil. They found organic molecules in the soil. So no methane but something solid I guess. And remember, they couldn't find methane yet on mars, Curiosity results were negative. http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-rover-yet-to-find-methane-on-mars-1.11730 http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-rover-yet-to-find-methane-on...
- hughw 14y agoIt could be methane molecules bound to sand particles. It would be surprising not to find methane on a planet in our solar system.