In the year 2031, a rocket packed with Martian rocks and soil samples will launch from the surface of the Red Planet.

The Curiosity rover made big news in late 2014 when it first detected organic matter on Mars. But in detailed studies of the sites in Gale Crater studied by Curiosity, called Yellowknife Bay and Sheepbed Mudstone, the concentration of organic molecules were much lower than scientists had expected.

Dr. Libby Hausrath is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where she studies chemical weathering of basalts and phosphate mobility on Mars.