What About on Mars?
Your team is not the only group of scientists trying to determine the origin of methane molecules. The simplest of all organic molecules, methane has often been called the "signature of life." When it was discovered in the Martian atmosphere in 2003, determining its source became the ambition of several researches trying learn if conditions are favorable of life on the red planet. But can the origin of methane be discovered in the same way on Mars as it can on Earth?
Your team is not the only group of scientists trying to determine the origin of methane molecules. The simplest of all organic molecules, methane has often been called the "signature of life." When it was discovered in the Martian atmosphere in 2003, determining its source became the ambition of several researches trying learn if conditions are favorable of life on the red planet. But can the origin of methane be discovered in the same way on Mars as it can on Earth?
![Picture of Mars](images/atmospheremars.png)