Signs of Life on Mars? NASA’s Discovery, Explained | NOVA | PBS

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NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found the clearest signs of ancient life on Mars yet — inside a strange speckled rock in Jezero Crater.

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life.

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