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Organic carbon detected in Bright Angel rock formation on Mars
- June 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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In September 2025, NASA announced that its Perseverance rover had discovered a potential biosignature, which is a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. A new paper, published in Science Advances, unambiguously confirms the detection of organic carbon, the building blocks of life, in the same two rocks from the Bright Angel formation, and describes in more detail exactly what we can say about that organic matter.
Originally published at Phys.org