The Perseverance Rover has found the kind of rock that it was sent there to find. It's exactly the type that holds microscopic fossils.

If there’s a Holy Grail on Mars, it’s probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it holds convincing clues to Mars’ ancient habitability.

Perseverance might have just found it.

  • brianorca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Perseverance itself isn’t returning, but it does collect sample canisters that could be. The canisters would need to be transferred to some future mission currently named “Mars Sample Return”

    • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social
      2·
      6 months ago

      So, essentially, their plan is to land something in more or less the same place? Or have another aerial flyer? I need to read more, this is exciting.