Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

On Nov 21, 6:45*am, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 11/20/12 9:40 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:

Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513...ars-rover-scie...

* *Mars secrets highlight scientists dilemma



Turns out that they discovered traces of carbon on Mars despite the
fact that the Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.Maybe someday
they will discover that carbon dioxide is necessary for life instead
of turning it into a planetary poison but now I am sure the point
would escape most here.

Hard to know what to say about this 'historic' event but things are so
quiet these days that perhaps better to say nothing at all.

On 12/4/12 2:06 PM, oriel36 wrote:

Turns out that they discovered traces of carbon on Mars despite the
fact that the Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.

Curiosity finds trace evidence of carbon compounds on Mars
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...ounds-on-mars/

Principle investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says the compounds were likely created in SAM. The instrument heats soil samples, so it probably caused the decomposition of several natural compounds in the soil, which resulted in the chlorination of the carbon atoms.

On Dec 4, 12:15*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 12/4/12 2:06 PM, oriel36 wrote:



Turns out that they discovered traces of carbon on Mars despite the
fact that the Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.

* *Curiosity finds trace evidence of carbon compounds on Mars







http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...ty-finds-trace...
Principle investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center says the compounds were likely created in SAM. The instrument heats soil samples, so it probably caused the decomposition of several natural compounds in the soil, which resulted in the chlorination of the carbon atoms.

Just like Earth has all sorts of moon paramagnetic basalt and
carbonado to work with.

On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 12:15:35 PM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:

Principle investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA�s Goddard Space Flight Center says the compounds were likely created in SAM. The instrument heats soil samples, so it probably caused the decomposition of several natural compounds in the soil, which resulted in the chlorination of the carbon atoms.

This begs the question...Why heat it if the results might be uncertain?

\Paul A

On Dec 4, 12:15*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 12/4/12 2:06 PM, oriel36 wrote:


Turns out that they discovered traces of carbon on Mars despite the
fact that the Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.

* *Curiosity finds trace evidence of carbon compounds on Mars

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...ty-finds-trace...
Principle investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center says the compounds were likely created in SAM. The instrument heats soil samples, so it probably caused the decomposition of several natural compounds in the soil, which resulted in the chlorination of the carbon atoms.

Just like Earth has all sorts of strongly paramagnetic moon basalt and
carbonado to work with (I even own several kg of it). So, there's no
telling where that extremely small amount of Mars carbon originated
from.

http://translate.google.com/#
Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth
Venus”,GuthVenus
“GuthVenus” 1:1, plus 10x resample/enlargement of the area in
question:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1027362...18595926178146