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English: Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument (SAM) discovered three long-chain hydrocarbons in a Martian mudstone. Decane, undecane, and dodecane are the largest organic molecules yet discovered on Mars, and may be the byproducts of fatty acids that disintegrated during heating by SAM.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Date 24 March 2025 (upload date)
Source Largest Organics Yet Discovered on Mars
Author NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - eMITS/Dan Gallagher, LATMOS/IPS/Caroline Freissinet, NASA/GSFC/Daniel Glavin, NASA/GSFC/Jason Dworkin, NASA/GSFC/Charles A. Malespin, ADNET Systems, Inc./Lonnie Shekhtman, eMITS/Walt Feimer, eMITS/Jonathan North, eMITS/Michael Lentz, NASA/JPL/Andrew Good, The University of Arizona/Erin Morton, NASA/GSFC/Nancy Neal-Jones, ADNET Systems, Inc./Aaron E. Lepsch
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Mass Spectrometer; sample analysis at mars; Mars; Mars Sample Return; Astrobiology; Curiosity; Mass Spectrometry; Organic; Mars Science Laboratory; Science; Carbon; SAM

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Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument (SAM) discovered three long-chain hydrocarbons in a Martian mudstone.

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