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Stefanie Waldek

Mars rock samples show signs of water in Jezero Crater — could life have once existed there?

An image of rocks on Mars. Central rocks have holes cut out, from which Perseverance collected samples.

Another day, another step closer to finding out whether life once existed on Mars. A new study suggests Mars rocks collected by NASA's Perseverance rover show signs of water — and where there was once water, there may have once been life.

The rock samples were collected from Mars' Jezero Crater in 2022, specifically in a "fan-like region" filled with sedimentary rocks on its western slope. This region appears to have once been the point where a river deposited sediments into a now-dry lakebed.

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