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Asteroid impacts+hydrogen = recipe for Mars life

Posted on March 25, 2019 by rburnham

A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen. An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also explain how the planet remained habitable after its … Continue reading →

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Curiosity detects biologically useful nitrogen at Rocknest, John Klein, and Cumberland sites

Posted on March 24, 2015 by rburnham

A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments. The nitrogen was detected in the … Continue reading →

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Was nitrogen in the early Mars atmosphere a key to ancient habitability?

Posted on June 5, 2013 by rburnham

Scientists have long suspected that ancient Mars had a thicker atmosphere and temperatures warmer and far more habitable than at present. But modelers have difficulties making the numbers come out right,

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