Gizmodo.com September 21, 2026 • 10:00

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth - Gizmodo

By Matthew Phelan

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth - Gizmodo

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

A large group of scientists, including astrobiologists at the University of Florida, geophysicists and engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a few scientists in France and Mexico, and many ot… [+11880 chars]

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