According to NASA scientists, the Perseverance rover has gathered some of
the most crucial samples thus far on its mission to ascertain whether life has
ever existed on Mars while exploring the location of an old river delta.
Organic material has been found in a few of the most recent samples, proving
that Jezero Crater, which most likely formerly housed a lake and the delta that
flowed into it, may have once supported possibly livable habitats 3.5 billion
years ago. According to Ken Farley, project scientist for the Perseverance
mission at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena