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After 1,000 days on the Martian surface, the Perseverance rover has collected samples that reveal the history of water within Jezero Crater.
NASA’s Perseverance rover began its most exciting chapter - exploring an ancient Martian river delta in Jezero Crater. These sediment layers may hold evidence of past life. The rover's tools are ...
Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when ...
NASA rover makes discoveries along ascent. Along the way to the Jezero summit, Perseverance stopped to capture images of the vast crater and some of the strange geology along the slopes of its ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
Jezero has features like sand dunes, steep slopes, and lots of scattered rocks, which would have created a landing hazard for previous rovers. NASA/JPL-Caltech.
These days, the Jezero crater on Mars is an arid, barren depression. But it was a very different place billions of years ago, images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover have revealed.
Jezero Crater is about 18 degrees north of the Martian equator and shows extensive variety in geology, allowing scientists to look at diverse rocks that may represent the planet's evolution over ...
And Jezero Crater provides the perfect place for Perseverance to pick up an array of promising samples. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover will land in this ancient river delta inside Jezero Crater.
Jezero Crater is located along the margins of one of the larger basins in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The crater is on the west side of the Isidis Planatia, ...
NASA said Thursday that its Perseverance rover had collected 12 compelling rock core samples on Mars. The rover is hunting in the red planet's Jezero Crater.