Tag Archives: Tissint

Soluble salts in Mars meteorite came from martian brines similar to terrestrial seawater

Posted on July 9, 2019 by rburnham

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Elizabeth Jaramillo and four co-authors recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.] Indigenous Organic‐Oxidized Fluid Interactions in the Tissint Mars Meteorite • Results support hypothesis that indigenous fluids incorporated into Tissint fissures on Mars and … Continue reading →

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Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Mars’ organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals, according to new analyses of three Martian meteorites from a team led by Carnegie’s Andrew Steele published in Science Advances. The group’s … Continue reading →

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Is carbon in Mars meteorite Tissint biological?

Posted on December 3, 2014 by rburnham

Did Mars ever have life? Does it still? A meteorite from Mars has reignited the old debate. An international team that includes scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has published a paper in the scientific journal Meteoritics and … Continue reading →

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Mars has carbon — it’s just not biological

Posted on May 25, 2012 by rburnham

A highly detailed study of 11 meteorites that have come from Mars shows that although 10 of them contain the organic element carbon, the source of the carbon is not biological in origin. Instead, the carbon lies as molecules inside … Continue reading →

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