NASA’s Perseverance rover in ‘great shape’

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet’s equator called Jezero.

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Jezero is thought to have held a giant lake billions of years ago. And where there’s been water, there’s the possibility there might also have been life.

Forty-five-km-wide Jezero displays multiple rock types, including clays and carbonates, that have the potential to preserve the type of organic molecules that would hint at life’s bygone existence.

Particularly enticing is the “bathtub ring” of sediments laid down at what would have been the ancient lake’s shoreline. It’s here that Perseverance could find what on Earth are called stromatolites.