...some of the conceivable pathways that allowed the thiophenes to form on Mars. Thiophenes consist of four carbon atoms, four hydrogen...) and abiotic (non-living) – to determine the thiophene’s possible origin. Their results, published in a new paper...
... SAM found a number of compounds in the samples including sulphur, carbon, thiophenes, benzene, toluene, and small carbon chains, such as propane or butene. Thiophenes are the simplest sulphur-containing aromatic compounds (aromatic refers to how the...