The researchers looked for the answers by
simulating early conditions on Mercury.
Not exact matches
«Whenever you run [experiments to
simulate conditions of
early life] they produce yellow and brown tars,» Miller says.
The Miller - Urey experiment, conducted in 1952 to
simulate conditions believed to have existed on the
early Earth, produced more than 20 different amino acids, organic compounds that are the building blocks for peptides.
Way and his GISS colleagues
simulated conditions of a hypothetical
early Venus with an atmosphere similar to Earth's, a day as long as Venus» current day, and a shallow ocean consistent with
early data from the Pioneer spacecraft.
Experiments with
simulated Martian
conditions and computer modeling are helping researchers refine
earlier assessments of whether the long - ago
conditions in the Meridiani area studied by Opportunity would have been hospitable to microbes.