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After 1,000 days of tracking, NASA’s Perseverance Rover was finally able to send captured images and videos of the Martian surface to Earth. This mission was originally intended to study various elements and structures on the surface of Mars, including its rocks, to find out the data stored over billions of years, but this robot was also able to capture the planet’s atmosphere thanks to this 360 degree camera attached.
In a report by scitechdaily (3/1), NASA announced the location of its research in an area called Jezero Crater. This area is considered very suitable for the collection of traces from ancient times, as numerous samples can be taken here.
Aside from that, Jezero Crater is said to have been an ancient river, which could be evidence of the presence of living cells there. Therefore, NASA is trying to collect as many samples as possible so that they can be tested to prove this hypothesis.
This ancient river is estimated to be 3.5 billion years old, but it has now dried up and only rocky soils with little water content remain. There is also an assumption that this ancient river used to flow not only water, but also volcanic lava, since the soil structure was generally unique, unlike sedimentation.
This robot’s journey is not over yet, as the Perseverance rover will continue to explore the surface of Mars to the west from its current location. The robot will attempt to trace the river upstream of this ancient river in order to prove a series of previously stated hypotheses.
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