Life on Mars (a.k.a. Mount Sharp), on August 6, 2012. On 16 December 2014, NASA reported the "Curiosity" rover detected a "tenfold spike", likely localized, in the amount of methane in the Martian atmosphere. Sample measurements taken "a dozen times over 20 months" showed increases in late 2013 and early 2014, averaging "7 parts of methane per billion in the atmosphere." Before and after that, readings averaged around one-tenth that level. In addition, low levels of chlorobenzene (), were detected in powder drilled from one of the rocks, named "Cumberland", analyzed by the Curiosity rover. Some of the main reasons for colonizing Mars
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet and Jones later produced another collaborative work, "Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War", which was published in 1998. Jones wrote another book about his experiences in space, "Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir", which was published in 2006. In "Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet", astronaut Thomas David Jones recounts his experiences studying the Earth during his first mission with the United States space agency NASA. Jones' space mission lasted eleven days. Jones was a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle "Endeavour", which left Earth in April 1994. The mission was intended to provide the Space