- NASA’s Perseverance rover has a great chance of finding evidence of life on Mars.
- The rover’s landing site, the Jezero crater, likely preserved signs of life if any existed on the surface of the planet.
- The Mars 2020 mission is still scheduled to launch in late July or early August 2020.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 mission launch date is rapidly approaching, and we’ve seen all the signs that the Perseverance rover is just about ready to make the long journey to the Red Planet. What will it find when it arrives? That’s a question nobody can answer, but new research by scientists at Stanford suggests that the rover’s targeted landing site may be a great place to look for signs of life.
NASA chose the rover’s landing location — a large bowl-shaped depression known as the Jezero crater — because it’s located in an area where ancient martian rivers flowed, carving channels and depositing sediment into layers. This is ideal for scientists hunting for signatures of life as it offers the opportunity to study material that was on the surface over a long period of time.
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