A study has confirmed the presence of a 'huge diversity' of organic compounds in the Tissint Martian meteorite that crashed on Earth's surface 12 years back. Find out more at 🚀 engineering interestingengineering
on Earth's surface 12 years back. The meteorite was named after the city of Tissint in Morocco, around which the fragments of it landed on July 18, 2011. The meteorite is one of the five Martian rocks observed as they fell to Earth.Around 37 pounds of the sample was collected with minor compositional variance between the recovered dozens of fragments near Tissint.
According to researchers, the study has found the presence of a remarkably diverse suite of pristine reduced to oxidized carbon compounds in the Tissint Mars meteorite.
The discovery of an abundance of organic magnesium compounds, a suite of organic molecules not previously seen on Mars, was the research's highlight.According to the team, the study shed light on how the processes occurring in Mars’ mantle and crust evolved, especially concerning abiotic organics formed from water-rock interactions.
Researchers suggest that by understanding the "processes and sequence of events that shaped this rich organic bounty will reveal new details about Mars’ habitability and potentially about the reactions that could lead to the formation of life."We report a huge organic diversity in the Tissint Mars meteorite and the sampling of several mineralogical lithologies, which revealed that the organic molecules were nonuniformly distributed in functionality and abundance.
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