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Organics Found in Mars Meteorites, But Nothing Biological
20 Jun 2012, 18:00 UTC
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Organics Found in Mars Meteorites, But Nothing Biological: The search for biologically created organic molecules on Mars goes back at least to the 1970s with the Viking program. Those missions had famously mixed results, and so the search for carbon-based life on Mars continues to this day. Researchers keeping piling on more and more evidence to excite astrobiologists and new results published in a study by the Planetary Science Institute and the Carnegie Institute of Washington may heighten their enthusiasm.
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