Well, look at that.
Perseverancelanded on Marsin February 2021.
The rover landed in Jezero Crater, which once held a large lake.
A view from the Perseverance rover.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The crater was formed by an impact event some 3.9 billion years ago.
On the crater rim itself is terrain that was uplifted by the impact, Horgan said.
Whats really exciting about that is that were now above the place where there was standing water.
We can actually see the rocks that were there before the impactreally ancient stuff.
The name of the game for Perseverance is:weird rocks.
These rocks could offer hints at ancient life, but also theevolution of Marsitself.
It drives hydrothermal systems through the crust, and those are really habitable environments.
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