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  1. Jul 20, 2021 · Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. After testing a bristling array of instruments on its robotic arm, NASA’s latest Mars rover gets down to business: probing rocks and dust for evidence of past life. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the ...

  2. 3 days ago · But so far no evidence has been found that convinces even a sizable minority of the scientific community that the red planet was ever home to life. What the evidence does indicate, though, is that Mars was once a habitable world. Life, as we know it, could have taken hold there.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Life_on_MarsLife on Mars - Wikipedia

    At least two-thirds of Mars' surface is more than 3.5 billion years old, and it could have been habitable 4.48 billion years ago, 500 million years before the earliest known Earth lifeforms; Mars may thus hold the best record of the prebiotic conditions leading to life, even if life does not or has never existed there.

  4. Apr 5, 2023 · If life ever existed on Mars, we may already have the answer at hand. In January NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited 10 tubes on the surface of Mars. Each contains a sample of Martian rock...

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  5. Nov 28, 2023 · Last Updated. Apr 26, 2024. Editor. NASA Science Editorial Team. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe, and searching for life on Mars is a major goal of the Mars 2020 mission.

  6. Sep 15, 2022 · Sept. 15, 2022. Exploring an ancient river delta in a crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected samples of two rocks that are chock-full of carbon-based molecules that could be...

  7. Feb 16, 2021 · The hunt for life on Mars: A visual guide to NASA’s latest mission. The Perseverance spacecraft, due to land this week, aims to scour Jezero Crater and collect the first rocks from the red...

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