Life with Mars.

NASA provides made a potentially huge finding on Mars via Curiosity's Test Analysis at Mars (SAM) tool, NPR reported this week. SAM would be the rover's on-board set of substance analytics tools, tasked with identifying organic compounds -- the carbon-containing foundations that are the basis for lifetime.

The public will likely wait till early December since NASA repeats tests to effectively confirm its still-secret findings. What is this great is set to be officially released at the next meeting of the National Geophysical Union, set for December 3 to 7 in Bay area.

The SAM instrument suite has a Gas Chromatograph (GC), a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS), and a Tunable Laserlight Spectrometer (TLS), as well since systems that manipulate and method samples. SAM can analyze gas, either drawn directly from your atmosphere or extracted from regolith or maybe powdered rock samples by home heating or chemically treating the samples. SAM will search for and characterize organic and inorganic molecules crucial to life on Earth, as well as specifics of the chemistry of past and present Martian environments.