NASA's Misinformation About Martian Macromolecules

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mars20120524.html

Above link goes to NASA’s press release about this subject.

Misinformation in the press release is underlined below:

“WASHINGTON — NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can originate on the Red Planet.  These macromolecules are not of biological origin, but they are indicators that complex carbon chemistry has taken place on Mars.”

“Scientists have theorized that the large carbon macromolecules detected on Martian meteorites could have originated from terrestrial contamination from Earth or other meteorites, or chemical reactions or biological activity on Mars.

Steele’s team examined samples from 11 Martian meteorites from a period spanning about 4.2 billion years of Martian history. They detected large carbon compounds in 10 of them. The molecules were found inside grains of crystallized minerals.”

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