One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance captured this image of the tracks made by the rover during its climb up the rim of Jezero Crater on Oct. 11, […]
Jezero Crater
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Shedding A Light On The Kinetics Of The Carboxysulfitic Scenario
One way in which we can attempt to relate chemical pathways to geochemical environments is by studying the kinetics of a given sequence of reactions and identifying the conditions under […]
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Perseverance Looks Back While Climbing A Steep Slope On Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater’s western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. During the climb, the rover […]
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Mars Perseverance Rover Observes Red Rocks With Green Spots at Serpentine Rapids – Possible Biosignatures?
Editor’s note: I will make this simple: did NASA find evidence of life on Mars? No. Did NASA find an interesting rock feature that might signal or indicate that there […]
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Investigating The Stability of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids in Hydrated Magnesium Sulfate under UV Irradiation to Assist Detection of Organics on Mars
The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover detected so far some of the most intense fluorescence signals […]
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Mars Perseverance Astrobiology Rover Heads Toward Dox Castle
The Perseverance rover is reaching new heights as it ascends the rim of Jezero crater (over 300 meters in elevation higher than the original landing site)! The rover is now […]
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Astrobiology Droid Perseverance Is At The Base of Jezero Crater’s Rim
The view looks northwest from the southern edge of the crater. A blue icon shows Perseverance’s general location as of Aug. 14, 2024, the 1,238th Martian day, or sol, of […]
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Rocks from Mars’ Jezero Crater, Which Likely Predate Life On Earth, Contain Signs Of Water
In a new study appearing today in the journal AGU Advances, scientists at MIT and NASA report that seven rock samples collected along the “fan front” of Mars’ Jezero Crater […]
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Perseverance Astrobiology Rover Begins The Long Climb Up The Rim Of Jezero Crater
After 2½ years exploring Jezero Crater’s floor and river delta, the rover will ascend to an area where it will search for more discoveries that could rewrite Mars’ history.
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Rocks Collected On Mars Hold The Key to Water and Perhaps Life. Bring Them Back To Earth.
Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA’s Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the Red Planet and even […]