Methane is an important gas in Earth’s atmosphere, released by volcanoes and excreted by many living organisms, including microbes. Several missions at Mars have found evidence for methane in its atmosphere, including a recent short-lived plume of methane measured by the Curiosity rover.
In this webinar from September 18, 2019, Dr. Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator of MAVEN’s Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) and of Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, describes the recent and ongoing studies of methane in the atmosphere of Mars.
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