Sentences with phrase «ancient microbial life»

On the balance of probabilities, these are still good places to look for traces of ancient microbial life.

In one group, participants read a past article from The New York Times describing possible evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite.

Mars 2020 takes the next natural step in its direct search for evidence of ancient microbial life, focusing measurements to the microbial scale and producing high - resolution maps over similarly postage stamp - sized analytical areas.

Not exact matches

According to the researchers, the proposed technique could be possible to perform with instrumentation already planned for the NASA 2020 rover mission to explore areas of Mars where the ancient environment could have fostered microbial life.

At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team have been operating a miniaturized «Mars farm» in order to simulate ancient and probably extinct microbial life — based on gases and synthetically produced Martian regolith of diverse composition.

There's also ancient crust exposed where there may have been microbial life.

Gale crater is also thought to harbor clues of ancient water activity on the Martian surface, and one of Curiosity's primary tasks will be to root around for evidence that Mars is, or was, capable of supporting microbial life.

«Microbial life isn't easy to see, even today, so rocks that preserve evidence of ancient bacteria are hard to find and hard to study.»

Curiosity's next task is to determine whether other conditions on ancient Mars, like the chemistry of the soil and air, were also favorable to the development of microbial life.

Curiosity is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding chemical evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, in ways that affected their potential favorability for microbial life.

On March 12, 2013, NASA announced ancient Mars was capable of supporting primitive, microbial life.

In 2013, rover found evidence that Gale Crater once had an ancient freshwater - lake environment that possessed the basic chemical ingredients to support microbial life.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

In 2013, the mission found evidence of an ancient freshwater - lake environment that offered all the basic chemical ingredients for microbial life.