09 March 2020
Organic molecules found on Mars could be consistent with early life, says study
...some of the conceivable pathways that allowed the thiophenes to form on Mars. Thiophenes consist of four carbon atoms, four hydrogen...) and abiotic (non-living) – to determine the thiophene’s possible origin. Their results, published in a new paper...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... SAM found a number of compounds in the samples including sulphur, carbon, thiophenes, benzene, toluene, and small carbon chains, such as propane or butene. Thiophenes are the simplest sulphur-containing aromatic compounds (aromatic refers to how the...
