Mastodawn

«Using a Raman spectrometer onboard the Perseverance rover, we report the […] most robust organic detection in Jezero crater thus far, and, to our knowledge, the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars.»

Was it life? We may never know.

#SpaceEconomy for billionaires killed the Mars Sample Return (#MSR) mission to subsidize pipe dreams for space colonization.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/perseverance-rover-most-complex-organic-chemistry-mars/

Paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0047

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #NASA

NASA Rover Finds Most Complex Organic Chemistry Ever Detected on Mars. But Can It Reveal Whether Life Ever Existed There?

And it happened right where life signatures were already stacking up.

ZME Science

65dBnoise 1d ago

Alien technology "24"

Processed, cropped SHERLOC_WATSON
looking W (265°) from RMC 89.0000
Sol 1900, LMST: 12:25:31
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01900/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1900_0835611749_183EBY_N0890000SRLC07030_0000LMJ03.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise 2d ago

#Perseverance has been watching its step all the way to here, but we just got to see some those EDL_RDCAM down-looking images that just dropped in. Here are some of them, debayered and processed:

RMC 51.5030 Sol 1125, LMST: 10:31:02
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01125/ids/edr/browse/edl/EDEQ1125_0766804427_486ECM_N0515030EDLC09017_0000LUJ02.png

RMC 87.0000
Sol 1796, LMST: 12:03:25
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01796/ids/edr/browse/edl/EDEQ1796_0826377838_236ECM_N0870000EDLC09037_0000LUJ02.png

RMC 88.1214
Sol 1871, LMST: 11:37:06
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01871/ids/edr/browse/edl/EDEQ1871_0833034306_366ECM_N0881214EDLC09039_0000LUJ02.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise 2d ago

Just as we (well, I) thought that #Perseverance was headed back to the planned route, its team decided it should have another go at that rugged terrain west of Lac De Charmes.

#Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #space #QGIS #MMGIS #USGS #HiRISE

65dBnoise 5d ago

These days my only chance at beating @mapperwocky (of #NASA / #JPL) to localizing #Perseverance is on weekends, and that's only with lots of luck. Not considering (my guessy) accuracy, of course.

New location and a new site RMC 89.0000 on Sol 1897.

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise 6d ago

Weekend traveler #Perseverance has set course to get back to the planned (dashed) route, it seems.

New location, Sol: 1896, RMC: 88.5126. The path shown is a guess. Map made using #QGIS, #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise Jun 18

RE: https://academiccloud.social/@mpsgoettingen/116770508901379640

The #RosalindFranklin rover is capable of distinguishing between organic molecules of different chirality.

In organisms, chiral organic molecules occur almost exclusively in one of the two possible mirror configurations. This is true on Earth — and, due to life’s self-replicative properties, must also apply to any potential extraterrestrial life. However, if the same molecules are of non-living origin, both mirror forms are expected to be present in equal parts.

#MPS #ESA #Solarocks #Space