Curiosity''s Search for Organics
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Soon the rover Curiosity will land on Mars. By design it won''t involve life-detection, but it was assembled to look for the carbon-based building blocks of Martian life and to explore the possible habitats where life might once have existed.
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By Mike WallSpace.comLife may well lurk beneath the Martian surface today, but it''ll be tough to detect without sending humans to the Red Planet, some experts say.It could be a long time before robots are able to drill deep into the Martian underground, explore caves and investigate other potential...
