The Perseverance Rover’s Mars rock sample may contain the best evidence of possible ancient life

a close up of multi-colored rock against a background showing a reddish-orange dusty landscape littered with rocks

The chief scientist of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material stored in the rover’s sample tubes, dropped both on the surface of Mars and in the rover itself while orbiting Jezero Crater. Given the Martian samples Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those be what the rover was meant to look … Read more