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What's behind the Martian methane mystery?
In late 2013 and early 2014, NASA's Curiosity rover detected an unexpected spike in methane on Mars — 10 times the usual level. Within a few months, the spike faded. Since then, Curiosity has ...
Scientists may have figured out why a potent greenhouse gas is rising. The answer is scary.
But the new paper points to microbes as the biggest source of the methane spike. Michel and her co-authors analyzed samples ...