Following years of analysis, the results of experiments conducted by the rover's SAM instrument, which searched for the building blocks of life on Mars, are in.
To conduct this experiment, in March 2017 the Curiosity Rover scooped up material from an area of Mars known as the Bagnold Dunes, a 22-mile long group of dark grey dunes in the Gale Crater, the first dune system on another planet ever explored by humanity.
Additionally, SAM has a wheel of 74 storage holders, some of which contain chemical solvents that allow the rover to conduct so-called"wet chemistry," and others that are made of quartz, allowing Curiosity to bake samples. The researchers involved in the study spent several years analyzing the results of this wet chemistry experiment conducted by SAM. They found organic molecules that would have been missed in the rover's normalThis helps verify that such experimentation could be a valuable tool in the search for life on the surface of alien worlds. Unfortunately, what the team didn't find was any evidence of life, such as amino acids or other complex organic molecules.
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