The rock, discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has colorful leopard-like spots, suggesting chemical reactions possibly caused by microbial organisms. “Layering, nodules, reaction fronts ...
Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...
Mars is often described as a dead planet, but fresh findings suggest it may have been much livelier in the past—at least ...
We’re often the first humans to put eyes on those images. We tell Perseverance to reach out, and grind rocks, take pictures, ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover revealed 24 mineral types in Jezero Crater, showing Mars experienced several water episodes.
NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.
In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to ...
NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...
"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...
Since February 2021, the Mars rover, Perseverance , has been exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero Crater which is most ...
For years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater, ...