# Martian Mud: Recent Discovery of Organic Matter on Mars

Jennifer Eigenbrode discussed NASA's Curiosity rover's recent discovery of organic carbon molecules, some of the building blocks of life, in mudstones from a 3-billion-year-old Martian lakebed. She discussed how it might have been preserved and what the source might be.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2019
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696716/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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