Sentences with phrase «found simple organic molecules»

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

Not exact matches

Even more damning to the theory, is that even if those elements would become «complex» within themselves, that they would find other «complex structures» that were chemically attractive and form even the most rudimentary organic building blocks of the far, far more complex amino acids needed to create a very, very simple RNA molecule.

Back in Yellowknife Bay I found very simple organic molecules, but now I've spotted more complex ones.

Hayes and his colleagues looked at organic compounds from sediments formed between 1.8 billion and 550 million years ago, and found that simple hydrocarbons from the sediments contained more carbon - 13 than more complex organic molecules.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.

Dr Larrosa added: «We have found that for a significant amount of processes, silver can be replaced with a simple organic molecule.