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Science magazine reported that Mars rover Curiosity had found 500 ppm of organics in Yellowknife Bay, Mars, although NASA scientists are still not sure if the organics came from Mars or from meteorites. ( See http://news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2013/12/new-results-send-mars-rover-quest-ancient-life )
Quote from Paragraph 9: “Researchers estimate that these organic compounds, made not by living things but by chemical processes in space, could have supplied Mars’s surface with between about 10 parts per million (ppm) and several hundred ppm of carbon—enough at the high end to account for all of the roughly 500 ppm of carbon that Curiosity has detected in the lakebed samples.”
Since the results came from the first drilling on Mars, what’s the probability that none of the 500 ppm of organics originated from Mars? Read more at http://wretchfossil.blogspot.tw