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NASA’s Curiosity rover detects organic compounds on Mars
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| 12-4-12
| Jason McClellan
Posted on 12/04/2012 8:39:41 PM PST by smokingfrog
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CheMin's examination of Rocknest samples found the composition is about half common volcanic minerals and half non-crystalline materials such as glass. SAM added information about ingredients present in much lower concentrations and about ratios of isotopes. Isotopes are different forms of the same element and can provide clues about environmental changes. The water seen by SAM does not mean the drift was wet. Water molecules bound to grains of sand or dust are not unusual, but the quantity seen was higher than anticipated.
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posted on
12/04/2012 8:40:32 PM PST
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smokingfrog
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks smokingfrog.
Another one of *those* topics, but you have to know where to look. :')
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12/04/2012 8:49:39 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/04/2012 8:50:41 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: smokingfrog
Didn’t they “discover” fossilized bacteria on Mars a few years back? Haven’t heard much of it lately.
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posted on
12/04/2012 9:35:33 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
If I remember correctly, they found a meteorite in Antarctica, that they said was from Mars, and it had signs of fossilized bacteria in it. But not everyone agreed that’s what it actually was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001
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posted on
12/04/2012 9:43:37 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Was there a launch today? My husband saw a trail going up around 5pm EST. The launches from the Cape are usually to the east between 2-3 o’clock. This was a trail visible from the southwest in Orlando at about 6-7 o’clock around 5PM.
To: Southern Magnolia
Maybe they finally launched the X-37B?
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posted on
12/04/2012 9:52:09 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
If they have found life, obama will want to tax the top three percent to redistribute to the scum and bacteria.
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posted on
12/04/2012 9:54:44 PM PST
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog; All
How do we know that the organic compounds which have been detected in soil samples taken by the Mars experiment aren’t the result of the possible contamination of the Mars Curiosity vehicle before it left Earth?
To: smokingfrog
They just need to discover global warming on Mars to get more funding.
To: smokingfrog
chlorine is a deadly chemical.
sulfur is common where anything has volcanic activity.
we already knew mars has water, frozen, on it.
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:41:03 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: cruise_missile
Here is my reaction.
Who Gives A Rusty Sexual act?
The days of deflecting my interests are gone.
There could be green headed talking turds out there who can karaoke. my favorite songs from the 70’s , juggle my finances with one hand, ,and take money from my right, and I'll just point at John Beahner and say been there done that!
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:42:04 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
(You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
To: smokingfrog
So...what became of the two low budget rovers that were all over the news a couple of years ago?
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:58:39 PM PST
by
norton
To: norton
I think those 2 have finally come to their end.
They lasted much much much longer than the original design said they would. MUCH longer.
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posted on
12/04/2012 11:02:15 PM PST
by
GeronL
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To: GeronL
I hate to call you on it, but there were supposed to be two more muches in there.
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posted on
12/04/2012 11:41:01 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
To: smokingfrog
organic compounds (chemicals containing carbon)lol, "organic compounds" vs "chemicals containing carbon"...maybe they mean the same thing to chemists, but to a layman one sounds like "life" and the other like "yeah whatever".
To: DoughtyOne
I hate to call you on it, but there were supposed to be two more muches in there.That would be too much.
To: AndyTheBear
No..., it would be two much. :^)
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posted on
12/05/2012 12:17:35 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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