Aboard Mars Curiosity Rover, Tools to Plumb a Methane Mystery

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 14:10 in Astronomy & Space

The Mars Science Laboratory, to be launched on Saturday, will seek to confirm claims that the Martian atmosphere contains methane, a carbon-based molecule that is one of the building blocks of life.

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