Image from Press Release by Earth-Life Science Institute.
The meteorite incorporates nitrogen-bearing natural materials in carbonate minerals. This is the first-ever proof of the presence of natural compounds on the pink planet.
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Mars has been the topic of curiosity ever since scientists have been trying ahead to discovering the opportunity of dwelling on the pink planet.
This analysis has added a brand new twist as a workforce of scientists has found a Four billion-year-old Martian meteorite which as soon as hit Antarctica.
In a press launch by Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), the workforce has revealed to have discovered traces of natural compounds within the meteorite. The meteorite incorporates nitrogen-bearing natural materials in carbonate minerals. This is the first-ever proof of the presence of natural compounds on the pink planet.
The workforce consisted of Atsuko Kobayashi from ELSI at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and analysis scientist Mizuho Koike from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Atsuko acknowledged, “This Martian meteorite, ALH84001 is famous, with hundreds of papers published on it. I have been working on it occasionally for about 20 years because I am an electron microscopist who studies tiny magnetic particles made by magnetotactic bacteria”.
As claimed by him, this explicit meteorite is at “the centre of the ‘life on Mars’ debate”.
As per the workforce estimation, the meteorite belongs to the Mars’ Noachian age and has been preserved for over Four billion years.
The detailed research has been revealed within the journal Nature Communications.
The research concludes the existence of moist and organic-rich early Mars, which makes it beneficial for the existence of life types.
