Since 2012, the rover Curiosity is conducting investigations on the surface of Mars with the aim of better constraining the climate evolution of the Red Planet and the presence of water liquid in its past, but also to determine whether or not Mars was ever able to support life. If we now know that many …
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Mission teams from the Curiosity rover have measured levels of total organic carbon (a key component of molecules of life) in Martian sedimentary rocks for the first time. These samples were taken from the Gale crater which once housed a huge body of water. Organic carbon If the surface of Mars is today inhospitable for …
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Astrophysicist Sylvia Ekström was invited Thursday in La Matinale to discuss the 250th anniversary of the Geneva Observatory. The researcher notably mentioned the fantasy of man going to live on the planet Mars, an “impossible” scenario, according to her. In 1950 on the ancestor of the RTS – radio Sottens -, when asked whether beings …
Since 2012, the rover Curiosity is conducting investigations on the surface of Mars with the aim of better constraining the climate evolution of the Red Planet and the presence of water liquid in its past, but also to determine whether or not Mars was ever able to support life. If we now know that many …
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