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Carbon-chlorine compounds detected by SAM on Mars The first examinations of Martian soil by the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument show no definitive detection of Martian organic molecules at this point. The instrument did detect simple chlorinated carbon compounds, represented by ball and stick models on the graph. NASA / JPL / GSFC