Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

This self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures



A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments.










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