Curiosity Finds Evidence That Ancient Mars Could Support Life
Powdered Rock NASAA rock analysis shows the necessary components for sustaining life. Only a little while after turning itself back on, Curiosity's chemical analysis of rock samples show something amazing: evidence ancient Mars could've supported life. By pointing its analyzing gadgets onto the powdered rock dug up last month, scientists uncovered chemical signs of life: the presence of sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and carbon point to a planet that could once keep microbes alive. Curiosity has been exploring near an ancient riverbed that scientists already suspected would've been ripe to keep life, well, alive. The chemical analysis gives that theory a boost. Unlike other parts of Mars, it wouldn't have been too harsh for any microbes to survive. The sample itself came a few hundred yards away from the stream bed. [NASA]