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NASA Probe FInds Possible Signs Mars Once Favored Life

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NASA claims new tests reveal that there may have once been life on Mars.

The "Curiosity" rover landed near the Mars equator last august as part of a two–year space mission.

The spacecraft is responsible for the first sample of rock powder ever to be found on Mars.

NASA says the evidence suggests the environment may have once been favorable to microscopic life.

Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock on the Red Planet last month.