Analysis of a rock sample collected by Nasa's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
Scientists identified some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- in powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient streambed in Gale Crater. The sample comes from a site just a few hundred yards away from where the rover earlier found an ancient streambed in September 2012.
By: Jenny Winder, SEN.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/13/curiosity-conditions-life-mars
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