Organic molecules in an ancient Mars meteorite formed via geology, not alien life
Carbonation and serpentinization may have generated organics on Mars for billions of years
![image of meteorite ALH 84001](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/011322_no_martian-meteorite_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
The ancient Martian meteorite, ALH84001, discovered in Antarctica in 1984, contains organic molecules that researchers now suggest were formed by geologic processes, rather than by alien organisms.
NASA