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CANADIAN SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS
We talk to atmospheric physicist, Professor James Drummond, about his part in an upcoming mission to Mars. An instrument he's working on, the Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer, or MATMOS will measure gases in the Martian atmosphere, with a particular focus on methane. The presence of methane could be an indication of biological processes, Life.
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Website:
- http://dalnews.dal.ca/2010/08/25/matmos.html
- http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM6XEZNZBG_index_0.html
- http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/destination/mars/quick_facts.php
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