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In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sedime - Space Daily

In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sedime - Space Daily
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NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered 21 carbon-based molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rocks. These findings provide evidence of chemical precursors necessary for life.

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has added a more detailed layer to one of the hardest questions in Mars science: not whether ancient Mars was ever habitable, but how much chemical evidence can survive long en…

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In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sedime - Space Daily — Headlinne — headlinne