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The team used spectrometer instruments attached to several telescopes to detect plumes of methane that were emitted from specific sites during the warmer seasons - spring and summer. Though nothing conclusive can yet be determined, it is possible that the detected methane was either produced by geologic processes such as the oxidation of iron (serpentinization) or by microscopic Martian life below the planet's surface. The methane released today could be produced currently, or it could be ancient methane trapped in ice 'cages' called clathrates or as gas below a sub-surface ice layer. || ", "release_date": "2009-01-15T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:58.179978-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 500388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003574/ch4_n_final.1916.jpg", "filename": "ch4_n_final.1916.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Visualization of a methane plume found in Mars' atmosphere during the northern summer season.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } }, { "id": 10363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10363/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "The Mystery of Martian Methane", "description": "Mike Mumma and his team of researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center have made the first definitive observations of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. 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