Life’s building components have been discovered on Mars by the Mars Perseverance rover. According to mission team members on Wednesday, Perseverance has found carbon-containing organic compounds in some of the rocks it has analyzed on the bottom of Mars’ Jezero Crater (Dec. 15). This is not evidence of life on Mars. In order to understand how the […] More
The Perseverance rover, which is presently investigating the surface of Mars, has been collecting samples of Martian rocks and soil, which will be saved for a future expedition to Mars to collect and return to Earth. As it plans a mission to recover the rock and soil samples collected by Perseverance, NASA has verified that […] More