Recent studies support previous evidence that the origin of life on Earth came from space rocks carrying the building blocks of life. Click to read more.
together alone and once again to quote carl with no hint that ep comes to save us from ourselves. we are in this bathtub together. called earth. so space can change you. for the better. let s talk about mars. the hunt for life beyond earth. the mars rover dug up intriguing clues. rocks loaded with the organic molecules that form the building blocks of life. how significant is that? yeah. this continues to affirm the possibility let me say likelihood that the prevalence of water elsewhere not just on earth and organic molecules elsewhere not just on earth. we found organic molecules in
materials. organic materials are the building blocks of life and what you see here is a video that nasa just released during a press conference. this is nasa s jet propulsion laboratory which runs this rover. what you re seeing there is the jez row crater delta. you can even see some of the wheel tracks right there in the distance. that is where the rover came from. it s traveled about eight miles in 18 mods, and now it s in this river delta a place that scientists believe used to be a river. it s all dried up now, and ran into a lake. that s where they re trying to get the rock samples from. let me just read you to some of the things that these scientists are saying. they re saying these are exactly the kinds of rocks we came to investigate. the data is matching the expectations. right there you can see three holes where the perseverance rover actually drilled into the ground of the surface of mars and then extracted those rocks.
space museum and a member of curiosity s science team. as a recover it went to mars with the lab equipment, with the cameras, with its instruments and really started probing into whether there were habitable are environments in the past on mars. and low and behole, we discovered fairly early on that in fact there were. lift-off of the atlas 5 with curiosity. reporter: curiosity was launched in space from cape c canaveral november 26, 2011. eight months, ten days and 100 million miles later it arrived. and three weeks later curiosity was sending back stunning images from the planet s surface. but it was also on the move. its seven-foot robot is designed to scoop up soil samples and drill into rocks, looking for the chemical building blocks of life. curiosity landing in the crater has found evidence of a