“Telltale Signal of Life” –Could Come in 2020 from MOMA -Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer – The Daily Galaxy –

Organic compounds called Thiophenes –found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles–were also recently discovered on Mars. Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch thinks their presence would be consistent with the… [+3691 chars]Source