NASA's Perseverance rover found water, organics, and chemical energy in a Martian rock, hinting at possible ancient microbial life.
In its ancient past, Mars likely contained many of the necessarily ingredients for microbial life to flourish on its surface. Now, a new discovery by
scientists are fixated on finding evidence that microbial life once flourished on the fourth rock from the Sun. So fixated, in fact, that the space agency has spent more than $5 billion getting two immensely complicated robotic rovers—Curiosity and Perseverance—onto the Martian surface with this specific microbial mission in mind. Now, one of those rovers might’ve discovered one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for Martian microbial life.
has never seen all three in one location, meaning the geological chemistry of Cheyava Falls is possibly our best clue yet that Mars once hosted life. “Cheyava Falls is the most puzzling, complex, and potentially important rock yet investigated by Perseverance,” Caltech’s Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist, said in a
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