{"id":136955,"date":"2022-03-17T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/nasa-rover-detects-organic-molecules-on-the-surface-of-mars"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:04:29","slug":"nasa-rover-detects-organic-molecules-on-the-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/nasa-rover-detects-organic-molecules-on-the-surface-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Rover Detects Organic Molecules on the Surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-rover-detects-organic-molecules-on-the-surface-of-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s an exciting discovery, it falls short of demonstrating that carbon-based lifeforms once lived on the surface of the Red Planet. It is, however, a step in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis experiment was definitely successful,\u201d Ma\u00ebva Millan, postdoctoral fellow at NASA\u2019s Goddard Spaceflight Center and lead author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-021-01507-9\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, told <em>Inverse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we haven\u2019t found what we were looking for, biosignatures, we showed that this technique is really promising,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it\u2019s an exciting discovery, it falls short of demonstrating that carbon-based lifeforms once lived on the surface of the Red Planet. It is, however, a step in that direction. \u201cThis experiment was definitely successful,\u201d Ma\u00ebva Millan, postdoctoral fellow at NASA\u2019s Goddard Spaceflight Center and lead author of a new study published on Monday in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}