NASA’s Curiosity Rover uncovers new clues about water on Mars
After spending 1,000 days on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new details about the history of an ancient lake and river delta on the red planet.
The new insights, detectable thanks to the rover’s detailed on-the-ground sleuthing, are helping scientists piece together the puzzle of Mars’ mysterious past, and they ultimately could determine whether life ever existed there.
Perseverance and its helicopter companion, Ingenuity, landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient microbial life.
As part of the search, the robotic explorer just completed its investigation of a river delta that once fed into a lake that filled Jezero Crater billions of years ago. Along the way, Perseverance has also collected 23 rock samples from different locations throughout the crater and delta.
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