Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars‏

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NASA Science News for Dec. 16, 2014

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory's drill.

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/16dec_methanespike/