Major objectives of the Perseverance rover mission include identifying past habitable environments, collecting rocks that are likely to preserve biosignatures and using the rover’s instruments to look for potential biosignatures in these rocks. The recognition of the > 3.5 billion-year old habitable environments in Jezero crater, Mars (Fig. 1); promised that the mission could achieve these objectives. The western sedimentary fan deposit, the hydrated minerals therein and the carbonate minerals at the margin of this fan were identified as particularly compelling areas in which to search for the signs of past life and collect the oldest aqueously deposited rocks from another planet.


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    Title :

    Astrobiological Potential of Rocks Acquired By the Perseverance Rover at the Front of the Western Sediment Fan in Jezero Crater, Mars


    Contributors:
    T. Bosak (author) / D. L. Shuster (author) / B. Weiss (author) / L. E. Mayhew (author) / E. L. Scheller (author) / S. Siljestroem (author) / K. A. Farley (author) / K. M. Stack (author) / A. Brown (author) / C. D. K. Herd (author)

    Publication date :

    2024


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English