NASA's perseverance Rover is in its second science campaign on the red planet. It has collected Rock core samples from an old River delta in its efforts to discover signs of life.
Reports say that the presence of organic matter in some of the most recent samples suggest that Jose crater which possibly had housed a lake before had potentially habitable surroundings 3.5 billion years ago.
jezero was selected for this Mission because it meets several key Mission goals, it allows us to explore an ancient habitable environment it allows us to seek evidence of possible Martian life in rocks deposited at that time about three and a half billion years ago.
This mission is not looking for extant life things that are alive today instead
it's looking into the very distant past when Mars's climate was very different
than it is today. The jazero crater which is about 45 kilometers wide host
Delta it is a fan-shaped feature that was formed about 3.5 billion years
ago at the convergence of a Martian River and a lake.
NASA's rover is currently investigating the Delta sedimentary rocks, these
rocks were formed when particles of varied sizes settled in the watery
environment. during its first science campaign the Rover explored the crater's
floor, the Rover found igneous rock-forming magma underground, and hinting at
volcanic activity in the region.
In July this year, the Rover scraped the service of one of these
sedimentary rocks so as to analyze the area. it's clear that we are
uncovering a bigger story that's happening in Jezero crater so we found signs of organic matter and this isn't really unexpected it aligns with what we've learned from studies
on Earth and Martian meteorites and from Mars research from our sibling
rover Curiosity, however, it does say that Organics seem to persist in
the very harsh Martian service environment which is very exciting for us
in building hope for exploration of signs of life on Mars in future.
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