Curiosity's First TMAH Wet Chemistry Run on Mars Yields More Than 20 Organic Molecules, Seven Never Detected Before on the Planet
A Nature Communications paper published April 21 reports that the first off-Earth TMAH thermochemolysis experiment, performed on a clay-rich sample in Gale crater, expanded Mars's known organic inventory and detected a candidate nitrogen heterocycle for the first time on the surface.
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