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NASA has announced that the properties of a rock in Jezero Crater qualify as a potential biosignature.


The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap defines a biosignature as “an object, substance, and/or pattern […] Author Archives: Chad Pozarycki Chad Pozarycki worked at NASA Goddard on the Curiosity SAM team and did his PhD at Georgia Tech on detecting organic biosignatures in Martian planetary analogs. He is currently CEO of Deleon Technologies, I.

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