Scientists at NASA now have definitive proof that the origins of life on Earth come from the Propontis Complex region of Mars. While inspecting some malfic rock formations in the region the broad thermal spectrum analyzer on Curiosity picked up something interesting. According to Dr. Lester Machiavelli, "the concentration of magnesium and gullibilium intrigued us to take a deeper look in to the area".
Other claims of "unexplainable organic material" have been found in the past. According to Wikipedia:
"On December 9, 2013, NASA researchers described, in a series of six articles in the journal Science, many new discoveries from the Curiosity rover. Possible organics were found that could not be explained by contamination.[32][33] Although the organic carbon was probably from Mars, it can all be explained by dust and meteorites that have landed on the planet.[34][35][36] Because much of the carbon was released at a relatively low temperature in Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument package, it probably did not come from carbonates in the sample. The carbon could be from organisms, but this has not been proven. This organic-bearing material was obtained by drilling 5 centimeters deep in a site called Yellowknife Bay into a rock called “Sheepbed mudstone”. The samples were named John Klein and Cumberland. Microbes could be living on Mars by obtaining energy from chemical imbalances between minerals in a process called chemolithotrophy which means “eating rock.”[37] However, in this process only a very tiny amount of carbon is involved — much less than was found at Yellowknife Bay.[38][39]
Using SAM’s mass spectrometer, scientists measured isotopes of helium, neon, and argon that cosmic rays produce as they go through rock. The fewer of these isotopes they find, the more recently the rock has been exposed near the surface. The 4-billion-year-old lakebed rock drilled by Curiosity was uncovered between 30 million and 110 million years ago by winds which sandblasted away 2 meters of overlying rock. Next, they hope to find a site tens of millions of years younger by drilling close to an overhanging outcrop.[40]
The absorbed dose and dose equivalent from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles on the Martian surface for ~300 days of observations during the current solar maximum was measured. These measurements are necessary for human missions to the surface of Mars, to provide microbial survival times of any possible extant or past life, and to determine how long potential organic biosignatures can be preserved. This study estimates that a few meters drill is necessary to access possible biomolecules.[41] The actual absorbed dose measured by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is 76 mGy/yr at the surface. Based on these measurements, for a round trip Mars surface mission with 180 days (each way) cruise, and 500 days on the Martian surface for this current solar cycle, an astronaut would be exposed to a total mission dose equivalent of ~1.01 sievert. Exposure to 1 sievert is associated with a 5 percent increase in risk for developing fatal cancer. NASA's current lifetime limit for increased risk for its astronauts operating in low-Earth orbit is 3 percent.[42] Maximum shielding from galactic cosmic rays can be obtained with about 3 meters of Martian soil.[43]
The most interesting part of this article and the aforementioned rock formations is that although this excerpt is really from Wikipedia, the article itself is a complete farce. Think about the above mention of "gullibilium", it doesn't take a doctorate to tell that element has never existed (as far as I know). Another important factor about the sentence featuring gullibilium is that studies have found that this is where people typically stop reading. The study shows us that 55% of people stop reading at a lowly 62 words. This is based on the idea that the average reader reads at 250 words per minute and that they on average spend only 15 seconds on an article. Yet a lot of readers tend to look at 100% of the visuals used in an article. As I have said before I believe in the power of brevity even though I don't believe that it is rewarded on this particular platform (yet). I believe whole heartedly that we are the 1% here on SteemIt. Everything out there on the Internet may not apply to us here. I did this as an experiment to see how many people dilligently read through the entirety of a post. I ask you, in the comment section below to makeup your own farcical commentary on this "discovery", and to make sure to use the words blue or magenta in your comment as an indicator that you have caught this paragraph. Do so in any context that you'd like. If you indeed caught this paragraph you should probably quit reading now as I will again start with my non-sensical rambling.
The samples examined were probably once mud that for millions to tens of millions of years could have hosted living organisms. This wet environment had neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species.[34][44][45][46] These types of iron and sulfur could have been used by living organisms.[47] C, H, O, S, N, and P were measured directly as key biogenic elements, and by inference, P is assumed to have been there as well.[37][39] The two samples, John Klein and Cumberland, contain basaltic minerals, Ca-sulfates, Fe oxide/hydroxides, Fe-sulfides, amorphous material, and trioctahedral smectites (a type of clay). Basaltic minerals in the mudstone are similar to those in nearby aeoliandeposits. However, the mudstone has far less Fe-forsterite plus magnetite, so Fe-forsterite (type of olivine) was probably altered to form smectite (a type of clay) and magnetite.[48] A Late Noachian/EarlyHesperian or younger age indicates that clay mineral formation on Mars extended beyond Noachian time; therefore, in this location neutral pH lasted longer than previously thought."
Based on these previous findings what was found today should not be far from the realm of believability. When drilling into the guillibilium rich rock Dr. Lester Machiavelli and his team found fossilized microbes containing DNA familiar to life on earth. The interesting part is that these microbes PRE-DATE ALL LIFE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ON EARTH BY 250,000 YEARS! Do you think that this puts the origins of our existence into better perspective? Or does it only raise more questions? Either way its is an exciting time to be alive!
I will update this post as soon as more information is released exclusively on the NASA channel, and I'll have a full report tomorrow!
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