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NASA’s Perseverance rover may have just found what it was looking for on Mars
The Perseverance rover has found evidence in a leopard-spotted rock that could suggest microbial life once existed on Mars billions of years ago, NASA said.
“We’re absolutely thrilled to have this sample in the bag!” said Briony Horgan, co-investigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of planetary science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in an email. More recently, Perseverance has been exploring the northern edge of Neretva Vallis, an ancient river valley that once delivered water into Jezero Crater more than 3 billion years ago, and that’s where it spotted Cheyava Falls. To fully understand what really happened in that Martian river valley at Jezero Crater billions of years ago, we’d want to bring the Cheyava Falls sample back to Earth, so it can be studied with the powerful instruments available in laboratories.”
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