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Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
A large group of scientists, including astrobiologists at the University of Florida, geophysicists and engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a few scientists in France and Mexico, and many ot… [Read Full Story on Gizmodo.com →](https://gizmodo.com/marss-ancient-clay-holds-the-same-organic-molecules-that-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth-2000806720)