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Mars rover finds carbon in its first soil sample analysis

The team of scientists operating NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic materials on Mars - but isn't sure whether the carbon-containing compounds are indigenous to the planet.
On 3 December, the team announced it had found several carbon-containing compounds, such as chloromethane (CH3Cl), after heating soil samples scooped from a wind-blown drift (pictured at right) into ovens on board the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. The compounds were formed after the highly reactive chlorine combined with carbon in the oven - but the team isn't sure of the source material for those two compounds.
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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyses First Martian Soil Samples

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyse Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulphur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's arm delivered to an analytical laboratory inside the rover.
Detection of the substances during this early phase of the mission demonstrates the laboratory's capability to analyse diverse soil and rock samples over the next two years. Scientists also have been verifying the capabilities of the rover's instruments.
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