The Perseverance Rover’s Mars rock sample may contain the best evidence of possible ancient life
The chief scientist of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material stored in the rover's sample tubes, dropped both on the surface of Mars and in the rover itself while orbiting Jezero Crater.
Given the Martian samples Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those be what the rover was meant to look for in the first place: evidence of past microbial life on the Red Planet?
The preliminary finding increases the need to return these Mars samples to Earth so that these prized collectibles from the Red Planet can be sent to laboratories for more rigorous analyses.
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