NASA’s Mars rover is about to land in the perfect place to hunt for alien fossils: an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land Thursday in the dried-up Martian lake bed Jezero Crater. It’s ideal for looking for alien fossils because a river deposited microbe-trapping minerals there. Perseverance will search the lake bottom, shorelines, and river delta for signs of ancient microbes. Billions of years ago, Mars was a water world with […]
