Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, has had a busy weekend. After detecting the highest levels of methane yet seen on Mars last weekend, NASA put a pause on the rover's other science activities to follow up on the discovery. On Monday, data from Curiosity's subsequent experiment filtered back to NASA and the spike in methane levels had disappeared, dropping to background levels.
"A plume came and a plume went," said Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator overseeing Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, during a NASA town hall event at the Astrobiology Science Conference on Monday. "We're very confident of the measurement."
Had to be a cow, amIright? Pig?
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-confirms-curiosity-rovers-surprising-mars-methane-discovery/
"A plume came and a plume went," said Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator overseeing Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, during a NASA town hall event at the Astrobiology Science Conference on Monday. "We're very confident of the measurement."
Had to be a cow, amIright? Pig?
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-confirms-curiosity-rovers-surprising-mars-methane-discovery/
