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A month on Mars: what NASA’s Perseverance rover has found so far

No signs of past life have emerged yet, but rocks at the landing site show signs of having been shaped by wind and water.
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  1. Alexandra Witze

NASA’s Perseverance rover has had a busy first month on Mars’s surface. From Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed on 18 February, it has been doing as much geology as it can — snapping pictures of its surroundings and analysing the rocks nearby. Already, team scientists have determined that several of the rocks are chemically similar to volcanic rocks on Earth, and that wind and water have eroded some of them.

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Nature 591, 509-510 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00698-5

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