While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA's Perseverance ...

It was, however, the fossil stromatolites (formed by ancient ... It’s widely understood this period was when Mars and Earth might have shared similar characteristics for supporting life.

Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars's malleable sand and sediment into dunes, ripples and other landscape patterns, called bedforms. Over billions of years, some of these landforms ...

REUTERS The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, raising chances of life on Mars aeons ago when both planets were similarly ...

Fossil ripple marks are the clearest evidence of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover ... [+] has ever found. Recent ripple marks as seen on Earth. "This is the best evidence of ...

on an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater. The Perseverance rover is now perfectly poised to hunt for such fossils. After a harrowing plunge to Mars, the $2.4 billion, SUV-sized robot sent a ...

They don't contain little fossils of microbes ... columns are the palisade growth structures The relevance here to Mars and the Perseverance rover is that Jezero Crater looks from satellite ...