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A new study reports that NASA's
Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a
Martian crater. .
Organic molecules are composed
of carbon, and often include other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
phosphorus and sulfur.
" They are an exciting clue for astrobiologists, since they are often thought of as building blocks of life," study lead author Sunanda Sharma, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena”
However she said that “they can be created by processes not related to life.”
It seems that a naturalistic origin of the solar system is wrought with difficulties.
Source;
. Choi, Charles Q, 2023, 'Building blocks of life' discovered on Mars in 10 different rock samples Live Science 17 July.
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