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American Military News  September 18, 2022 Lee Roop - Alabama Media Group

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found “a potential biosignature” of past life on Mars in the dry lakebed called Jezero Crater right where a one-time Alabama scientist predicted it might be.

The rover scraped some samples of a rock known as “Wildcat Ridge” and submitted them to its onboard analysis instrument called Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals or SHERLOC.

This is actually the second time a NASA rover has found evidence of organic matter in rock-powdered samples. In 2013 NASA’s Curiosity Rover found them, as well, but not in an ancient lake where life could have existed. Perseverance has just done that.

The samples will be put into storage for pickup and return to Earth. Watching closely are scientists at Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center who are developing the Mars Ascent Vehicle that will pick up the samples and bring them home.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/nasas-perseverance-rover-finds-possible-new-evidence-of-life-on-mars/

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Re: NASA’s Perseverance rover finds possible new evidence of life on Mars
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2022, 11:23:19 pm »
How long till the EPA stops the search?

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Re: NASA’s Perseverance rover finds possible new evidence of life on Mars
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2022, 11:40:40 pm »
All hail Marvin, the Martian!
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