Curiosity results from AGU: Methane is there, and it's variable

At the American Geophysical Union meeting, the Curiosity mission announced that an instrument had finally definitively detected methane in Mars' atmosphere. It exists at a low background level, but there was a spike to about ten times that, which lasted for a couple of months before disappearing. What that means is unclear.



from Planetary Society Blog http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/12301420-curiosity-results-from-agu.html

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