Jezero Crater’s Ancient Lake: Perseverance Rover’s Exploration and Geological Insights

Recent discoveries made at this week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 in San Francisco reveal new details from NASA’s Perseverance rover regarding the samples it has been collecting while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars. In these samples, researchers have identified phosphate and fine-grained silica, which are known for being linked with life as we know it and preserving ancient fossils on Earth, respectively. These findings hold the potential to help researchers better understand the conditions on early Mars and whether life…