The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago on the Red Planet.
File Photo by NASA/UPI | License Photo March 25 (UPI) -- The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago on the Red Planet. "Our study proves that, even today, by analyzing Mars samples we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed on Mars," stated Caroline Freissinet, the study's lead author and research scientist at France's National Centre for Scientific Research in the Laboratory for Atmospheres and Space Observations in Guyancourt. Advertisement Nicknamed the "Cumberland sample," the organic compounds were drilled in 2013 from a 3.7 billion-year-old rock…