'A Great Moment': Rover Finds Methane, a Clue That Mars May Harbor Life - 0 views
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SAN FRANCISCO — Life on Mars? Today? The notion may not be so far-fetched after all.
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Curiosity has now recorded a burst of methane that lasted at least two months.
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for the first time, they had confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them.
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