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Perseverance rover rolls onto 'Crocodile' plateau on Mars to hunt for super-old rocks


"The Krokodillen rocks formed before Jezero Crater was created, during Mars' earliest geologic period, the Noachian, and are among the oldest rocks on Mars."

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