Life on Mars: Asteroid impacts could have created LIFE as key ingredients IDENTIFIED
“However, the presence of hydrogen led to a faster cooling of the shock-heated gas, trapping nitric oxide, the precursor of nitrate, at elevated temperatures where its yield was higher.”
The experiment was conducted in a closed laboratory environment, where leasers were shot into flakes containing the right mix of gases.
Infrared lasers were shot in pulses into the flasks, which were then analysed for their chemical compounds.
Mars today might be a cold and extremely hostile planet with an incredibly thin and unbreathable atmosphere.
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