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Clear skies over Mars gave NASA’s Perseverance rover a rare chance to capture a razor sharp panorama of the landscape at a site called Falbreen. The view stretches from nearby sand ripples to hills many miles away, and it shows the kind of fine texture scientists look for when they map rock layers and decide what to study next. …

Only a little over a week after scientists announced NASA’s Perseverance rover may have detected a potential biosignature in a Martian rock named Sapphire Canyon, a new study suggests similar habitable conditions were widespread across Jezero Crater — the site of that major discovery — broadening the stage for the search for ancient life on Mars. In the study, scientists …

A potentially huge discovery by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will likely remain in scientific limbo for years to come. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), the Perseverance team announced it found possible biosignatures in pieces of a Mars rock called “Cheyava Falls” that the rover first studied last year. Those intriguing chemical fingerprints include the iron-containing minerals vivianite and greigite, which Perseverance …

NASA just announced that its Perseverance rover recently found some on Mars. The rover obtained a sample of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment and there are biomarkers indicating the potential presence of microbes once upon a time. Basically, the rocks contain minerals that typically form as a result of a chemical reaction between mud and organic matter. …

Since February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring a region on Mars known as Jezero Crater, a huge cavity believed to have once hosted a lake. It’s considered one of the most promising places to look for evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet (life as we know it, at least) — and there has been an update …

NASA has some exciting new results from the Perseverance rover, and they will be presented during a press conference on Wednesday, September 10. The call for a press conference is exciting as it suggests that there is something really juicy to be showcased with a new paper published at the same time. The rest of this article is behind a …

On Wednesday (Sept. 10), NASA officials will share details about a new finding connected to a unique sample the Perseverance rover found on Mars. The teleconference will stream on the agency’s website at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and is expected to include some “visuals” during the discussion. You’ll also be able to tune in right here on Space.com, as …

Participants in the teleconference include: Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington Lindsay Hays, Senior Scientist for Mars Exploration, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance Project Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York Since landing in the Red …

NASA’s Perseverance rover finds ‘turtle’ on the Red Planet  Chron NASA Perseverance rover spies a ‘turtle’ on Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 5, 2025  yahoo.com Mysterious ‘helmet’ spotted on Mars  InsideNoVa.com NASA Perseverance Rover Photographs Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Turtle  PetaPixel NASA’s Perseverance Rover Stumbles Upon a Mysterious “Helmet” Shaped Rock on Mars  MSN Source link

As NASA’s Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled across some interesting things. Recently, on Aug. 31 (the 1,610th sol, or Martian day, of its mission), Perseverance captured an image of this rock, which looks like the head of a turtle coming out of its shell. What is it? …