Mars Methane Mystery Deepens

The methane mystery on Mars true acquired stranger. Fresh results from ESA and Roscosmos’ ExoMars Ticket Gasoline Orbiter, has no longer detected methane in the ambiance of Mars. This outcome follows the 2013 detection of methane by NASA’s Curiosity rover, a outcome reputedly confirmed by ESA’s orbiting Mars Categorical the next day. The anxiety is so provocative due to existence is a prime producer of methane on Earth, main to provocative speculation that some form of existence — possibly microbial existence — is developing methane below the bottom of Mars. Non-organic sources of methane are also conceivable. Pictured is a visualization of the first claimed methane plume over Mars as detected from Earth in 2003. The unique non-detection of methane by the ExoMars Orbiter would possibly suggest that Mars has some surprising technique of destroying methane, or that handiest some substances of Mars begin methane — and possibly handiest at dawdle instances. Because the mystery has now deepened, humanity’s scrutiny of our neighboring planet’s ambiance will deepen as properly.