A great discovery about the existence of life on the planet Mars made the NASA Curiosity Rover. In rocky samples that collected from the surface of the red planet, organic “unprecedented” organic molecules were found, according to Phys.org.

The samples were identified the decrecan, elecanese and duodenum molecules, organic compounds consisting of 10, 11 and 12 carbon respectively and are believed to be remnants of fatty acids.

Fatty acids are among organic molecules that are chemical structural elements of life.

In fact, these are the largest organic compounds ever observed on Mars, according to findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Curiosity scientists had previously discovered small, simple organic molecules on Mars, but finding these larger compounds is the first proof that “organic chemistry proceeded to the type of complexity required for the origin of life on Mars”.

According to scientists, living beings produce fatty acids to help form cell membranes and perform various other functions.

However, fatty acids can also be produced without life, through chemical reactions caused by various geological processes, including the interaction of water with metals in hydrothermal holes.

On Mars, fatty acids could come- as a case at present, according to the Guardian- from the deconstruction of cell membranes that existed 3.7 billion years ago. ” Indeed, the new study by Curiosity scientists also increases these chances that Mars have been maintained on Mars after tens of millions of years of intense radiation exposure and oxidation.