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This is John Bachelor.

The conversation with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman about the latest thinking of the methane detected by curiosity on the surface of Mars, methane associated with organics or volcanic activity. The methane has not

been detected in the atmosphere recently to my knowledge, maybe never, but

recently. Curiosity, however, has detected methane on the surface of Mars from the

soil around it as it moves. The thinking is this. The methane comes from the percolite that soaks through the Martian

soil. Bob explains, the discouraging part here is the association of methane with life The now what this means for Mars now in the discovery phase and the future colonies of

Mars.

Bob Zimmerman on methane detected by curiosity on the surface of Mars.

No, the mystery's been that orbital data was not showing methane, methane in Gail Crater.

But the methane detector on curiosity would periodically get unexpected puffs of methane around it.

Very small amounts, but enough for it to detect, but not enough of the orbiters to detect.

And I didn't know where this methane was coming from.

So now some scientists have a theory about where it's coming from.

They think it's methane that's sealed in the salts, in local soil and when the grover passes over that

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