[ad_1] The famous Mars meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001), recovered in Antarctica in December 1984, contains 4 billion-year-old native organic molecules, the building blocks of life that contain carbon, a new study suggests. Furthermore, these bricks contain nitrogen, another ingredient on which life on Earth depends. These ingredients have been found within the carbonate minerals, … Read more
[ad_1] The Mars Opposition On Wednesday, August 27 2003, at 10:51 GMT, the planet Mars approached the earth closer than at any time during the last 60,000 years. It became the brightest object in the night sky, a beautiful red jewel in the firmament, with an apparent diameter to in the sky of about 25 … Read more
[ad_1] Mars used to have a global magnetic field earlier in the planet’s history, but this was much earlier and much later than experts previously knew. First of all, it is important to note the fact that a planet’s global magnetic field arises from what experts call a dynamo – this is a flux of … Read more