Curiosity Finds Mars May Be Covered in Organic Materials

New analysis from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover shows that the red planet is likely flush with organics. "I am convinced that organics are all over Mars," said Jennifer Eigenbrode, a biogeochemist and geologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What that means is something we'll have to talk about," Eigenbrode said last week during a National Academy of Sciences workshop about the search for life beyond Earth.