Organic carbon on Mars is abiotic

The Tissint meteorite, a 58 gram sample of which is shown here, landed near Tata, Morocco in July of last year and was confirmed as martian in January. A new study shows that it and several other martian meteorites contain organic carbon of non- biological origin.Photo credit: Department...

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