Sentences with phrase «detect organic molecules»

However, because other Viking experiments failed to detect organic molecules, the results were largely dismissed as being caused by non-living agents in the soil.

Instruments on - board the rover will be able to detect organic molecules at concentrations of just 40 parts per billion.

It can reveal details of the minerals inside rocks, and so what the micro-environment for life is, but we can also use it to detect organic molecules and signs of life itself.»

SAN FRANCISCO — NASA's Curiosity rover has caught a whiff of methane in Mars» atmosphere and has for the first time detected organic molecules in rocks on the planet's surface.

Scientists used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 12 Meter Radio Telescope to detect this organic molecule.

Not exact matches

When the team applied the technique to a sample of the organic molecule PTCDA, not only did the molecules show up in intricate detail, an electrical signal was also detected between them (coloured green below), at exactly the locations where hydrogen bonds are present (Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI: 10.1021 / ja104332t).

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

Astronomers studying a nearby dwarf galaxy have detected large organic molecules, suggesting that the basic chemical building blocks of life can form in places much more primitive than our own galaxy.

In two star - forming regions of the galaxy, ALMA picked up signals emanating from three complex organic molecules, including dimethyl ether and methyl formate, which had not previously been detected outside our own galaxy.

Dawn's spectrometer will be able to detect the presence of organic molecules.

Hörst, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, began studying Titan's chemistry after the NASA Cassini probe detected complex organic molecules in the atmosphere.

Since complex organic molecules, whose precise composition remains unknown, have been detected in Enceladus's jets, these conditions appear to be favorable to the emergence of life.

Because of graphene's chemical inertness and biocompatibility, the team expects that the new technique will be effective in detecting trace amounts of organic molecules.

But the enhanced instruments aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are breaching that barrier in a critical way: by detecting extremely subtle differences in wavelengths of infrared light, enough to isolate the nature and quantities of simple organic molecules.

It has long been known that graphene is also fundamentally suited to detecting traces of organic molecules.

He has personally helped detect 11 interstellar molecules with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia but recognizes that a full list of the organic chemicals out there is only a start.

Cassini measured the composition of these jets, detecting raw materials for life including salt, water, carbon dioxide, methane, other organic molecules and, most recently, hydrogen, an ideal energy source for life.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

The research team's ALMA observations have clearly detected an atmosphere of complex organic molecules above and below the disk [2] ALMA has found complex organic molecules around a protostar IRAS 16293 - 2422.

Methanol, a derivative of methane, is one of the largest complex organic molecules detected in discs to date.

ALMA has detected the complex organic molecule methyl cyanide in the outer reaches of the disk in the region where comets are believed to form.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, suggesting once again that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not unique in the universe.

Methanol is the only complex organic molecule as yet detected in discs that unambiguously derives from an icy form.

Previous searches for organic molecules in the LMC detected small amounts of methanol, the parent molecule of the two newly - discovered compounds.

The latter two molecules are the largest organic molecules ever conclusively detected outside the Milky Way.