The hope is that scientists will now find fossilized lifeforms that will hold significant information about Mars’ ancient climate.
The mission was part of its latest science campaign exploring the top of Jezero Crater’s delta: a carbonate-rich rock formed from deposits carried downstream by an ancient river.
“This animation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls “Berea” using a coring bit on the end of its robotic arm. The sample was collected on March 30, 2023, the 749th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
“A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith ,” noted NASA.
“Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA , would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.”Scientists are trying to uncover the mystery of how Mars’ climate worked back when most of its area was covered with liquid water. This is where carbonates come in.The rocks form due to chemical interactions in liquid water providing scientists studying them with a long-term record of changes in the planet’s climate.
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