Blue-Green Algae Could Help Keep Humans Alive on Mars, Experiment Suggests

Perseverance will start roving around Mars in just a few short days. Equipped with a rock-blasting laser, microphones, a helicopter, and much more, the rover it will hunt for ancient life, cache samples for return to Earth, and pave the way for human explorers by plucking oxygen from Mars' thin air.

Availability of subsurface water-ice resources in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars

ESA Mars orbiters support NASA Perseverance landing