My guess is that is was simply hydrocarbons, otherwise I think this would be reported as a bigger deal. Thats a good point though, the article is pretty vague about that their actual findings were.
My guess is that is was simply hydrocarbons, otherwise I think this would be reported as a bigger deal. Thats a good point though, the article is pretty vague about that their actual findings were.
As an adherent to the abiogenesis theory of hydrocarbons everywhere, I wonder if they are claiming they found "organic" material because they found hydrocarbons, or because they found actual molecules suspended in the hydrocarbons? The article wasn't clear to me.