Comment on Giant string of organic molecules on Mars

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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I… What? No, that’s not even close to what the paper concludes.

“We argue that such high concentrations of long-chain alkanes are inconsistent with a few known abiotic sources of organic molecules on ancient Mars, namely delivery of organics by IDPs and meteorites […]”

They’re literally arguing meteorites could not have delivered this concentration of long-chain alkanes.

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