Complex chemistry within the Martian soil: No definitive detection of organics yet

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's arm delivered to an analytical laboratory inside the rover. Researchers reported that they have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point, but they will keep looking in the diverse environments of Gale Crater.

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