Sentences with phrase «evidence of organic compounds»

Intriguingly, radioactive carbon was detected, but then another experiment found no evidence of organic compounds in the soil — there were no alien bodies.

Not exact matches

We found that the particles seen in our images, which were droplets of ocean only hours earlier, bore evidence of large organic molecules and compounds that indicated hydrothermal activity similar to that observed at deep - sea vents on Earth's seafloor.

Evidence for such an origin might be bolstered if scientists find signs of other materials known to be present in comets, like carbon - based compounds called organics.

The goal of this $ 2.5 million machine, the most ambitious ever sent to Mars, is geological: to analyse sediments that could have preserved organic compounds or other evidence of ancient microbes, if these were ever there.

Turning over rocks across the crater, the rover has compiled evidence of ancient water — a lake fed by rivers once occupied the crater itself — and organic compounds and other chemicals essential for life.

The discovery of organic compounds adds to the growing body of evidence that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

This taste of carbon is intriguing, but it is a far cry from recent feverish speculation that the rover had found definitive evidence for organic compounds on Mars.

«The evidence from observation indicates that complex organic chemistry is much more universal than previously thought,» says Fred Goesmann from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, who led the analysis of organic compounds on the Rosetta mission.

«We managed to present the first molecular evidence of a direct and ubiquitous source of ELVOCs arising from the oxidation of monoterpenes and other volatile organic compounds in the gas phase.»

Previous in situ analyses of the Martian terrain have found inconclusive evidence for the existence organic compounds — so far only finding chlorinated organic matter.

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

Analysis of asteroid 24 Themis shows evidence of water ice along with organic compounds widespread across the surface.

The abundance of water vapor, oxygen, methane, and other organic compounds in the atmosphere could be evidence of an active biosphere on the surface of a planet.

A discovery by a NASA scientist of sugar and several related organic compounds in two carbonaceous meteorites provides the first evidence that another fundamental building block of life on Earth may have come from outer space.