Gale was less likely to have organics, but it was guaranteed to be geologically fascinating.
Japanese believed that bathing with aromatic organics helped healing, such as the orange-like citrus Mikan.
Previous missions, notably the Viking landers in the 1970s, have hinted at the presence of organics on Mars.
Until January, Krause was an organics devotee who shopped at Whole Foods Market.
Organic circuits have been in development for awhile, but it's still rare that the organics are producing the circuitry themselves.
Dr Lefevre says that if the variations are confirmed it would mean the Martian surface is very hostile for organics.
By contrast, if the sample comes back pure, researchers can then focus on identifying clues as to where the organics came from.
Eberswalde might be the best place on Mars to find organics, but if none were found it had relatively little to teach us.
Eden Valley Organics now sells beans in BPA-free cans, and Walmart and Toys "R" Us no longer sell baby bottles containing the compound.
If organics pop up that weren't supposed to be in the block, researchers will more likely rule that the organics found on Mars were stowaways.
"What Portland is doing with organics is an area that we're very interested in, " says Nick Galus, a senior project manager with that city's solid-waste team.
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But they stressed that at this stage they could not be sure where those "organics" had come from - possibly from the spacecraft itself or from meteorites showering the Martian surface.
Given these rules and exclusions, younger and more affluent consumers who spend more on organics and on food away from home would be less affected by Proposition 37.
And, of course, there are plenty of non-biological processes that will produce organics, so it wouldn't be an "A equals B" situation even if Curiosity were to make the identification.
In the U.S., a big maker of so-called squeezable fruit is Peter Rabbit Organics, a closely held British firm with products in more than 8, 000 outlets, including 6, 000 Starbucks Corp.
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"In order to create life, you need both the right environmental conditions -- which includes liquid water -- and you need the building blocks from which life is built, which includes organics, " Squyres said.
Another company, with whom I feel a strong personal connection because it was the first company that I got engaged with when I joined ICA, is Premier Organics, who makes organic raw nut butters.
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When a bee stings a person, the venom-containing stinger is left behind and the bee usually dies, explained Alex Fras, a beekeeper in British Columbia who makes the Bee U Organics line of cosmetic products.
We will learn more about how the solar system formed, where Earth' water and organics originated and how life might be sustained in places far from our Earth's atmosphere and expand the boundaries of human exploration.
If there aren't any organics, that may suggest there's something on the planet destroying these molecules, says James Wray, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and collaborator on the Curiosity science team.
But if Curiosity could make the definitive identification of organics in Gale Crater, it would be a eureka moment and go a long way towards demonstrating that the Red Planet did indeed have habitable environments in its ancient past.
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