Mars Methane Movie

Written by
Ryan Anderson
Planetary Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center
January 20, 2009
This article originally appeared on Ryan Anderson's "The Martian Chronicles" blog and is reposted here with permission.
NASA has put together a nice movie of Dr. Mike Mumma summarizing his discovery of methane on Mars. He brings up the possibility that the methane detection might influence landing site selection for MSL. I suspect that the Nili Fossae site will get some more attention because it was identified as one of the methane-producing regions, but it was taken off the list of finalist sites mostly due to safety considerations, so I think it will be hard to get it back in the running.
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