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  • NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars

    NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars

    Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars. Not life itself—hardly—but another endorsement of the ancient habitat on Mars as having been suitable for life. Perseverance has been searching for biosignatures—that is, signs of ancient life on Mars—since it landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. But the search for…