{"id":22117,"date":"2022-09-16T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-in-rock-samples-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:52:14","slug":"perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-in-rock-samples-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-in-rock-samples-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance rover finds organic matter in rock samples on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has spent the last year and a half on Mars exploring an ancient lake bed called the Jezero Crater. Percy\u2019s primary task is to collect rock-core samples from features within a 28 mile (45 kilometer) wide area long considered by scientists to be a prime location for finding signs of microbial life that may have existed 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mission is not looking for extant life things that are alive today,\u201d Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist, stated. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re looking into the very distant past when Mars climate was very different than it is today, much more conducive to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWildcat Ridge\u201d is the name of a rock about 3 feet (1 meter) wide in the Martian Jezero Crater and is believed to be an ancient delta formed by the convergence of a river and a lake.<\/p>\n

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