Nitrogen

NASA's Curiosity Rover Helps Discover Nitrogen On Mars

By Kamal Nayan - Mar 25, 2015 12:47 AM EDT

NASA's Curiosity rover has helped in discovering yet another building block of life, Nitrogen, on Mars. In a recently published paper, researchers reported that the rover found oxidized nitrogen-bearing compounds in samples collected from three sites in Gale Crater, the 96-mile-wide basin the rover has been exploring since August 2012.

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