A rock found on Mars contains substances that may have been produced by ancient microorganisms that once lived NASA said Wednesday.
this NASA Rover Oanseverance found a rock called “Cheyava Falls” last July. Scientists point out that white dots ring in black on the rock, and on Earth, it is sometimes associated with fossil microorganisms below the direct surface of the rock.
Samples of the rock were tested to find out if life was involved in making the leopard spotted ring.
The scientists “say, ‘Listen, we can’t find another explanation’, so this is probably the most obvious sign of life we’ve found on Mars,” NASA Sean Duffy said in a press conference Wednesday, administrator and transport secretary Sean Duffy said.
A paper published in Nature says that the “Sapphire Canyon” samples taken from the rocks of Sharva Falls contain “potential biosignatures” that may have a substance or structure of biological origin, but further research is needed before it can be determined whether life involves creating them, whether these conclusions involve creating them, and whether these conclusions involve creating them. NASA explain.
Cheyava Falls were found in the formation of “bright angels” of rocks made of clay and silt, which are well known to preserve microorganisms from the Earth.
“The combination of compounds we find in the formation of bright angels may be a rich energy source of microbial metabolism,” said Joel Hurowitz, lead author of the paper and perseverance researchers.
In particular, the sample contains minerals rich in iron, sulfide and green rocks, NASA Say, it can be produced by microorganisms, but can also be produced in comparatively in the absence of life.
The paper found that bright angel formation showed no signs of the continuous heat and acidity required for these minerals to produce.
“Astrobiological claims, especially those related to potential discoveries of alien life in the past, require extraordinary evidence. … While the abiotic explanations of the discoveries we saw in Bright Angels are unlikely given the discoveries in this article, we cannot rule them out.” NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Katie Stack Morgan, who works on the Perseverance Team.
