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Ben Turner

'Incredibly exciting': NASA claims it's found the 'clearest sign' yet of past life on Mars

A selfie taken by NASA's Perseverance Rover while on Mars.

Strange nodules of unusual minerals found on speckled rocks on Mars have offered more tantalizing clues that ancient life may have once thrived on the now-dead planet, NASA says.

NASA's Perseverance rover found one such arrow-shaped rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, in 2024 along the northern bank of Neretva Vallis, the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that once rushed into Mars' Jezero crater.

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