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Perseverance Finds Potential Chemical Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life on Mars


NASA’s Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero crater to characterize early Martian geological processes and habitability and search for potential biosignatures.

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